Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the value is of duplicate supplier payments identified by his Department since 2010; and what proportion of such payments have since been recovered in each of the last two financial years.

The value of duplicate supplier payments detected by the Department in each financial year since 2010 was:

Financial Year £

2010-11 £38,815.22

2011-12 £17,976.00

2012-13 NIL

2013-14 £26,481.10

All of these duplicate payments were detected by the Departments own financial control processes and recovered in full in the same financial year at no cost to the Department.