Social Security Benefits: Fraud and Maladministration
Commons · Question 93194 · Tabled 20 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of benefit expenditure was lost to (a) claimant fraud, (b) official error and (c) customer error in each of the last five years.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Western, 1 Dec 2025
Since Autumn Budget 2024, including the new announcements at Autumn Budget 2025, the Government have committed to gross savings of £14.6bn up to the end of 2030/31 from fraud, error and debt activity in Great Britain. Estimates of the levels of fraud and ...