Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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.

The department incurred no financial losses as a consequence of fraudulent usage of electronic payment cards during financial years 2019/20, 2020/21 or 2021/22.