Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of theft and fraud to (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last ten years.

Information regarding the cost of detected fraud in the Cabinet Office can be found in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts and the NAO’s Fraud Landscape Review (2016). The Cabinet Office undertakes sampling exercises to identify anomalies in areas such as travel, subsistence and grants.