Written question asked by Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour) on Wednesday, 16 May 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 21 May 2012. It was answered by Lord Grayling (Conservative) on Monday, 11 June 2012 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

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Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the total value is of his Department's contracts with A4e for which there have been fraud investigations; and what the value of the reported fraud was for each such contract.

[108610]

Answer

In March 2012, the Department was made aware of an allegation in respect of A4e's Mandatory Work Activity contract. The Department undertook a fraud investigation, which found no evidence of fraud.

While the team found no evidence of fraud, it identified significant weaknesses in A4e's internal controls on this contract in the south east. As a result, we terminated this contract on 15 May 2012.

The indicative value over the life of this Mandatory Work Activity contract was £2,656,013. The value of reported fraud was £0.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 108610; 546 c248W
Session: 2012-13
Subjects: Contracts Fraud Employment schemes A4E
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

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