Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many payments were fraudulently charged to his 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.

There were no reports of fraud using Departmental electronic purchasing cards in the financial years 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22.