Department for Communities and Local Government: Fraud

(asked on 3rd November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the cost of (a) fraud and (b) financial error in (i) his Department, (ii) its executive agencies and (iii) its non-departmental public bodies in each year from 2015.


Answered by
Marcus Jones Portrait
Marcus Jones
Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
This question was answered on 5th December 2017

The cost of a) fraud and b) error to the Department and its agencies is zero, since all identified fraud losses have been recovered subsequently. In the instances of 'error', which is generally caused by internal employee payment issues, the Department recovers these losses through payroll so there is no outstanding cost to the Department or its agencies to report.

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