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Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
Wednesday 19th January 2022

Asked by: Baroness Buscombe (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect the overall figure for benefit fraud to reduce back to the levels seen prior to March 2020.

Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott - Opposition Whip (Lords)

We are developing the options for setting an overall fraud and error target. Targets will reflect the recent announcement of an additional £510m investment and the attendant initiatives we are developing to further reduce the fraud and error rate.

We will provide more information on this in our 2022 Annual Report and Accounts.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Personal Independence Payments

"My Lords, with the leave of the House, I will now repeat the Answer to an Urgent Question asked in another place concerning personal independence payment:

“The Supreme Court has ruled on the case known as MM, or SSWP v MM. This case was about the definition of ‘social support’, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Personal Independence Payments

"My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his response and his understanding that we welcome this judgment. As he will know, we regularly consult stakeholders to help shape the training of DWP staff, and I am proud that we now have, in respect of training, a mental health champion …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Personal Independence Payments

"I shall do my best to respond to the noble Baroness, who of course knows so much about this area. On waiting times, we are committed to processing PIP claims as quickly as possible while ensuring that we have all the evidence we need to make the right decisions. A …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Personal Independence Payments

"My Lords, we are working hard to get on top of these problems, and no one is working harder than my honourable friend in another place the Minister for Disabled People, Justin Tomlinson MP. We recognise that for the most severely disabled claimants the award review process can seem unnecessarily …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Universal Credit: Managed Migration

"My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place by my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. The Statement is as follows:

“Mr Speaker, at the core of this department is the desire to deliver a …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Universal Credit: Managed Migration

"I thank both the noble Baronesses, Lady Sherlock and Lady Janke, for their questions. I have to agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Sherlock, that it has been a journey. It has not been easy, but I am pleased to say that we are, we believe, now in a very …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Universal Credit: Managed Migration

"I am glad that the noble Baroness has prompted me. We will publish an assessment of the impacts prior to scaling of managed migration. As we said in our response to SSAC, we are conducting detailed equality assessments of migration plans as part of our public sector equality duty. We …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Universal Credit: Managed Migration

"I thank my noble friend for his question. As he will know, Harrogate has a strong mix of benefit claimants that will reflect case loads across the country as we start to scale. We looked at this issue carefully and took some time to choose somewhere that would have a …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Universal Credit: Managed Migration

"I will respond to the noble Baroness by saying that I absolutely appreciate and very much respect the work that she does in relation to supporting just the sort of people we want to support through this process. I am quite surprised in some ways that the noble Baroness is …..."
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