Fraud

Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 18 December 2014.

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Photo of Lucy Powell Lucy Powell Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of (a) fraud and (b) financial error in (i) his Department, (ii) its executive agencies and (iii) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last five years.

Photo of Mark Harper Mark Harper Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Disabled People)

(i) This information is available in the public domain. Please see the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system

(ii) and (iii) Non Departmental Public Bodies and Executive Agencies:

Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Independent Living Fund (ILF), National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS), The Pensions Regulator (TPR), Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC), Pensions Ombudsmen (PO), Pension Protection Fund Ombudsmen (PPFO), Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC):

Please note that Remploy Ltd, the Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Pension Protection Fund are all Public Corporations and are therefore not included in this response.

2009- 2010

2010-2011

2011-2012

2012-2013

2013-2014

EA / NDPB

Error £

Fraud

£

Error

£

Fraud £

Error

£

Fraud

£

Error £

Fraud £

Error £

Fraud £

HSE

-

-

352.50

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

ILF

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

NEST

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1.4m

-

-

TPAS

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

TPR

4318

-

201

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

IIAC

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

PO

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

PPFO

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

SSAC

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

SMCPC

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

No estimate

No estimate

No estimate

No estimate

Both HSE and TPR made full recovery in the years the debts were incurred. NEST recovered £0.3 million in May 2014.

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