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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the financial benefit has been to the NHS of the Counter Fraud and Security Management Service and its predecessor the NHS Counter Fraud Service in each year since September 1998; and if he will list successful recoveries of assets worth over £500,000 in each year since September 1998. [216141] Ms Rosie Winterton: The national health service counter fraud and security management service has published its performance statistics annually since 1999-2000. The financial benefit to the NHS per year is shown in the following table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Amount (£) 1999-2000 52,477,000 2000-01 71,993,000 2001-02 84,716,000 2002-03 135,269,000 2003-04 134,017,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Single recoveries of over £500,000 in each year are shown in the following table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Recoveries £ 2000-01 1x 1,337,610 1x 650,000 2001-02 1x 799,087 2002-03 1x 1,750,000 2003-04 1x 1,400,000 2004-05 1x 1,128,000 1x 799,087 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

431 c1904W;431 c1897W; 216141

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Finance NHS Statistics Standards Counter Fraud and Security Management Service

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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