Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many payments were fraudulently charged to her Department’s budget using electronic purchasing cards in the financial years (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, and (c) 2021-22; and what was the total value of fraudulent payments (i) made and (ii) recovered in each of those years.

The information requested in your 45 questions of 5 September regarding the FCDO's published Government Procurement Card expenditure https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fcdo-government-procurement-card-spending-over-500-june-2022 is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.