Social Security Benefits: Fraud
(asked on 24th February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many prosecutions have been brought for benefit fraud in each year since 2010.
The table below represents the number of prosecutions for benefit fraud since 2010.
Year | Number prosecuted for benefit fraud |
2009-2010 | 8,198 |
2010-2011 | 9,961 |
2011-2012* | not available |
2012-2013 | 9,836 |
2013-2014 | 9244 |
* Following a merger of DWP Prosecution Division (PD)with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in April 2012, the prosecution data for benefit fraud offences 2011/2012 was not gathered and the information from PD is no longer available in that format. The data available from DWP sources is not reliable in the context of this request.