Economic Crime Survey 2024: Technical report

Product Description

The Home Office commissioned Ipsos, supported by Professor Michael Levi from Cardiff University, to design and undertake a new study of the prevalence and impact of economic crime among UK businesses with one or more employees (referred to simply as ‘businesses’ across this report). The study focused on 3 types of economic crime – namely fraud, corruption, and money laundering – as well as covering breaches of financial sanctions.

This is a new study with its own methodology. It follows a similarly named 2020 Home Office survey of UK businesses that also looked at the prevalence and impact of fraud and corruption, but deploys a new questionnaire and qualitative materials based on best practice from other UK and non-UK surveys where available, and developed through consultation with experts in academia, industry and the UK government. The earlier study covered 7 industry sectors, whereas this latest study covers the entire private sector. It also predominantly focused on economic crimes experienced over a 3-year period, rather than in the past 12 months (as this latest study has done). Therefore, the 2 studies are not directly comparable.

This report provides the technical details for all strands of the research, and copies of the main survey instruments to help interpret the findings are also available. The Home Office has published a separate report of the main findings from the research.