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Social Security Benefits: Fraud

Commons · Question 32012 · Tabled 21 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 3 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Lee Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2025 to Question 29494 on Social Security Benefits: Fraud, if she will make it her policy to (a) record and (b) publish annually the number of benefit fraud investi

Answer

Answered by Andrew Western, 3 Mar 2025

The Department is not currently considering changing the data we record or publish about the outcomes of fraud investigations. We are confident that the data we collect and publish in the Annual Reports and Accounts is comprehensive and proportionate - th...