Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to publish a list of all accredited national statistics produced by departments about fraud and error in public expenditure, including precise titles, responsible departments, publication frequencies, and most recent dates of publication.

The Government is committed to transparency in its efforts to tackle fraud and error against the public sector.

Accredited national statistics are maintained by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR), which provides independent regulation of all official statistics produced in the UK. The OSR publishes a comprehensive list of all official statistics that they have independently reviewed and accredited, including levels of total fraud and computer misuse in England and Wales.

The Public Sector Fraud Authority publishes data in relation to public sector fraud and error through its Cross-Government Fraud Landscape Report. The most recent Report, covering the period of 2021-22, set out levels of detected, prevented and recovered fraud and error, as reported by Departments and public bodies. The next Fraud Landscape Report will be published in Autumn 2025, and will cover two reporting years of 2022-23 and 2023-24.

Furthermore, the National Audit Office produced an ‘Overview of the impact of fraud and error on public funds’ in November 2024 which sets out the total impact of fraud and error on public funds for 2023-24. This overview draws on publicly available sources, including the annual report and accounts of government bodies which are publicly available on GOV.UK