Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 20 May 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether (a) his Department or (b) the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible or any of its agencies and (c) his Department's Executive agencies use (i) Atos and (ii) any other company for the provision of counter-fraud activities and related services.
The Department does not use Atos or any other company to deliver counter-fraud activities on our behalf. We do, however, use two other companies to help us to deliver some fraud-related services. We recently completed a data matching pilot which used information provided by Experian to help us identify potentially fraudulent cases, and we also work with Equifax to obtain financial information to assist departmental fraud investigators in their work.
Since January 2011, central Government Departments have been required to publish on Contracts Finder information on the contracts they award:
www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/
In addition, Departments publish details of spend in excess of £25,000.
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