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Contactless Payments: Fraud

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 49711, tabled on 20 October 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with commercial banks and other providers of Radio Frequency Identification-enabled cards on (a) incidents of contactless card fraud and (b) prevention of such fraud.

Answered on

28 October 2016

Since his appointment, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has had no discussions with commercial banks and other providers of RFID-enabled cards about incidents of contactless card fraud or their prevention.

Answered by

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy