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Treasury

Answer

Mr. Prisk: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his estimate is of the cost of theft and fraud to (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies in each year since 1997. [191425] Mr. Timms: The figures for the Chancellor's Departments and their agencies and NDPBs are given in the following table. £0001 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 HM Treasury 15 21 22 4 51 19 12 Debt Management Office n/a n/a n/a n/a 0 0 0 Office of Government n/a n/a n/a n/a 1 6 0 Commerce OGCbuying.solutions n/a n/a n/a n/a 0 0 0 Royal Mint 0 0 0 0 26 0 8 Statistics Commission n/a n/a n/a 0 0 0 0 Office for National 3 10 7 8 4 5 28 Statistics HM Customs & Excise 35 60 142 23 12 55 12 Inland Revenue, including 93 259 136 277 514 441 702 Valuation Office National Savings and 304 310 298 454 371 202 352 Investments Government Actuary's 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Department _________________________________________________________________________________________________. n/a = Not applicable--denotes that the body did not exist in the year in question. 1 Rounded to the nearest thousand pounds. The figures include known and estimates values for known instances of theft and fraud committed by employees, net of recoveries. They also include values for known instances of theft and fraud committed by contractors. In common with other direct mail retailers, the Royal Mint experiences cheque and credit fraud in connection with its retail business. Reliable data on the level of such fraud is not readily available. The figures for HM Customs and Excise and the Inland Revenue do not include estimates of revenue lost through fraud or theft by taxpayers. The figures for National Savings and Investments include theft and fraud committed via savings products.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

426 c1720-1W;426 c1724-6W; 191425

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Costs Executive agencies Fraud Government departments Non-departmental public bodies Theft Treasury

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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