Department for International Trade: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

(asked on 5th September 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many payments were fraudulently charged to the budgets of (a) her Department and (b) UK Export Finance using electronic purchasing cards in the financial years (i) 2019-20, (ii) 2020-21 and (iii) 2021-22; and what was the total value of fraudulent payments (A) made and (B) recovered in each of those years.


Answered by
James Duddridge Portrait
James Duddridge
This question was answered on 27th September 2022

The Department for International Trade (DIT) had a single case of fraud in 2020-21 of £986.98 which DIT recovered the full amount of from the card provider, Barclaycard. DIT fraud and error losses are published in the Cross-Government Fraud Landscape report which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cross-government-fraud-landscape-bulletin-2019-20

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