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Written question asked by David Ruffley (Conservative) on Thursday, 21 April 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 27 April 2011. It was answered by Lord Grayling (Conservative) on Thursday, 5 May 2011 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.


Social Security Benefits: Fraud

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much his Department spent on advertising in respect of benefit fraud in each year since 2007.
Answer

The information requested is shown in the following table:

Expenditure on advertising in respect of benefit fraud
£ million
2007-08 6.4
2008-09 5.8
2009-10 4.8
2010-11 0.02
Note:
Includes media costs, PR, production and research costs. It excludes VAT.

The 2010-11 spend reflects the freeze on all new Government advertising and marketing spend which came into effect on 24 May 2010 as part of the Government's plans to reduce expenditure to achieve £6.2 billion of net savings.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
53365; 527 c899W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Fraud Social security benefits
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk