Written questions

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...