Social Security Benefits: Fraud
(asked on 15th May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of its work to decrease benefit fraud.
This question was answered on 23rd May 2023
I refer the Hon Member to the Written Statement HCWS765 made on 11 May, in relation to the annual statistics for Fraud and Error in the Benefit System for the financial year ending 2023, published that day.
These statistics confirm that fraud fell to 2.7% (£6.4bn) of benefit expenditure during that period.