Steve McCabe – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2015-10-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to make identity theft a criminal offence.

Mike Penning

Where a person steals somebody’s identity documents and/or uses somebody else’s identity to access a bank account or to make some other kind of financial gain, he or she can already be prosecuted under existing theft and fraud offences. We have no plans to create additional offences.