Social Security Benefits: Fraud
Commons · Question 93195 · Tabled 20 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claims were terminated in the last 12 months as a result of fraud investigations; and what the estimated value of those claims was.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Western, 4 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 the welfare state in Great Britain. Information on t...