Social Security Benefits: Fraud
(asked on 26th November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of benefit fraud that led to convictions were prosecuted in (a) Wales and (b) Wrexham in each of the last five years.
The table below represents the number of successful convictions in Wales since April 2012.
Year | No of Convictions |
2012 – 2013 | 1616 |
2013 – 2014 | 1512 |
2014 – 2015 | 992 |
The data held for the number of convictions prior to 2012 is not available for publication.
The information requested for Wrexham is not readily available. This is because the data is not collated in a format for Wrexham only. This information could only be provided by examining individual investigation files. This could only be conducted at disproportionate time and cost.