Department of Health and Social Care: Fraud and Maladministration
(asked on 5th March 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the amount of money lost to fraud and error by her Department in each of the last three financial years.
This question was answered on 2nd April 2024
Fraud and error losses in the Department for each of the last three financial years are shown in the table:
Period | Detected fraud (£m) | Detected error (£m) |
2020/21 | £3.01 | £1.51 |
2021/22 | £10.43 | £77.35 |
2022/23 | £46.07 | £1.59 |
Notes:
- Figures shown in this table are gross losses that do not include monies subsequently recovered as a result of loss recovery activity.
- Over the corresponding 3 year period £65.95m was recovered, this figure does not relate directly to the loss figures shown in the table as recovery action may involve funds lost over multiple years.
- Figures are rounded to two decimal points.