Benefits Fraud

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Security – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 May 1999.

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Photo of Edward Leigh Edward Leigh Conservative, Gainsborough 12:00, 24 May 1999

One of the best ways in which to combat fraud would be to automate the payment of benefits, but that has been the subject of a long-standing dispute between the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Social Security. Will the Minister honestly say what has happened to the ICL contract? We gain lots of information from unattributable briefings to the press. Will he come openly to the House and explain what is going on?