Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will provide the equivalent information given in the Answers of 15 October 2015 to Question (a) 11427 and (b) 11428 for fiscal years 2009-10 and 2015-16.

Since 2009-10 NHS Protect only took responsibility for cases that were assessed as more complex or serious investigations, cases that had national implications and were not deemed local matters, cases that crossed regional boundaries or cases where resources or use of certain legislative procedures could not reasonably be expected to be applied at a local level. The nature and type of these cases has meant that fewer investigations and prosecutions have taken place.

The information requested is shown in the following tables.

The number of prosecutions by NHS Protect following investigations of fraud in each category for fiscal years 2009-10 and 2015-16 is shown in the following table.

The number of prosecutions by NHS Protect in each category for fiscal years 2009-10 and 2015-16 is shown in the following table.