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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the amounts not paid by his Department for each benefit as a result of detection of benefit fraud in each area of (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the amounts not paid by his Department for each benefit as a result of detection of benefit fraud in each area of (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f)...
The Department does not hold this information.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of benefit fraud which was attributable to identity fraud for each benefit in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire,(c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each year since 2005 for which...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of benefit fraud which was attributable to identity fraud for each benefit in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire,(c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each year since 2005 for which...
As no central record is kept detailing the information the MP is requesting, this information could only be provided by examining individual investigation files. This could only be conducted at disproportionate time and cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of benefit fraud committed in respect of each benefit which was attributable to identity fraud in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk, (c) the East of England and (d) England and Wales...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of benefit fraud committed in respect of each benefit which was attributable to identity fraud in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk, (c) the East of England and (d) England and Wales...
The information requested is not readily available. This is because the data is not collated in the format requested. This information could only be provided by examining individual investigation files. This could only be conducted at disproportionate time and cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the level of detected benefit fraud was in each of the last four years; and if he will estimate what the level of undetected fraud was in each of those years.
[135925]
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the level of detected benefit fraud was in each of the last four years; and if he will estimate what the level of undetected fraud was in each of those years.
[135925]
The value of detected benefit fraud for each of the last four years is as follows:
| Current
classification
fraud | |
| Financial
year | Value
of new debt (£
million) |
| 2008-09 | 75 |
| 2009-10 | 75 |
| 2010-11 | 89 |
| 2011-12 | 52 |
| Total | 290 |
| Source:
Debt Accounting. This does not form official statistics but is derived
from Management
Information. |
These figures do not include detected housing benefit and council tax benefit fraud identified by local authorities. That information is not available.
The Department is unable to provide an estimate for the level of undetected fraud for each of these years. Although we do produce estimates of the total amount of fraud overpaid each year, the statistics for detected fraud use a stricter definition of fraud which means that the two sets of figures are not comparable.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what savings from detected benefit fraud were made by (a) his Department and (b) local authorities in each of the last four years.
[135923]
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what savings from detected benefit fraud were made by (a) his Department and (b) local authorities in each of the last four years.
[135923]
The information is as follows:
(a) Savings from detected benefit fraud recorded by the Department is the amount of overpayments recovered from fraudulent cases as per the following table:
| Value
of recoveries on fraud currently classified
debts | |
| Financial
year | Current
classification fraud—value of recoveries (£
million) |
| 2008-09 | 25 |
| 2009-10 | 28 |
| 2010-11 | 33 |
| 2011-12 | 40 |
| Total | 126 |
| Source: Debt Accounting. This does not form official statistics but is derived from Management Information. |
(b) The equivalent information for local authorities is not available as the Department does not collect data from them for the amounts recovered specifically relating to fraudulent overpayments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what working estimate was used by his Department for housing benefit fraud in each of the last four years; and what the level of detected housing benefit fraud was in each such year.
[135919]
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what working estimate was used by his Department for housing benefit fraud in each of the last four years; and what the level of detected housing benefit fraud was in each such year.
[135919]
The estimate for housing benefit fraud in each of the last four years compared to the level of expenditure is as follows:
| Table
1: Estimated housing benefit expenditure and overpayment due to fraud
between 2008-09 and
2011-12 | ||
| Expenditure
(£
billion) | Fraud
(£
million) | |
| 2008-09 | 17.1 | 250 |
| 2009-10 | 20.0 | 250 |
| 2010-11 | 21.4 | 300 |
| 2011-12 | 22.8 | 350 |
| Notes: 1. Expenditure rounded to the nearest £0.1 billion. 2. Fraud rounded to the nearest £10 million. Source: DWP National Statistics: Fraud and Error in the Benefit System: 2011-12, estimates released 29 November. |
The Department does not collect information about the level of detected overpayments due specifically to fraud in housing benefit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people were (a) convicted and (b) charged for but subsequently acquitted of each benefit fraud offence in each of the last four years; how many of those convicted of each type of offence in each such year were...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people were (a) convicted and (b) charged for but subsequently acquitted of each benefit fraud offence in each of the last four years; how many of those convicted of each type of offence in each such year were...
The number of people referred for prosecution by the Department for Work and Pensions for benefit fraud offences and the number convicted during the last four years is shown in the following table.
| People
referred for
prosecution | People
convicted1 | |
| 2008-09 | 11,408 | 6,700 |
| 2009-10 | 10,783 | 7,040 |
| 2010-11 | 11,040 | 8,598 |
| 2011-12 | 10,358 | 9,861 |
| 1
The number of convictions in any one year will not relate to the same
cases in that year because of the time lapse between referring a case
for prosecution and the court
hearing. |
The information on sentencing is not available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff were employed by his Department to investigate instances of fraud relating to (a) employment and support allowance and (b) other benefits in each of the last four years.
[135924]
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff were employed by his Department to investigate instances of fraud relating to (a) employment and support allowance and (b) other benefits in each of the last four years.
[135924]
We are unable to show the number of staff employed to investigate instances of fraud by individual benefit.
The following table shows the total number of staff employed by DWP to investigate instances of fraud for each of the last four years.
| Fraud
type activities
totals | |
| FTE | |
| 2008-09 | 3,673 |
| 2009-10 | 3,621 |
| 2010-11 | 3,659 |
| 2011-12 | 3,845 |
The data is extracted from the JCP ABM Models 08/09, 09/10, 10/11 and the DWP ABM Operations Model 11/12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the level of (a) customer error and (b) fraudulently claimed overpayment was in claims for (i) pensions credit, (ii) jobseeker's allowance and (iii) income support due to the incorrect declaration of (A) full-time earnings, (B) part-time earnings, (C) partner...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the level of (a) customer error and (b) fraudulently claimed overpayment was in claims for (i) pensions credit, (ii) jobseeker's allowance and (iii) income support due to the incorrect declaration of (A) full-time earnings, (B) part-time earnings, (C) partner...
The information will be placed in the Library.
The information is not available in the format requested for categories C, H and N. Such information as is available for category C is included in the tables under categories A and B; category N is included in the tables under category F.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many cases of benefit fraud his Department has investigated in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bury St Edmunds constituency and (c) England and Wales in each of the last three financial years; and how many such investigations subsequently resulted in a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many cases of benefit fraud his Department has investigated in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bury St Edmunds constituency and (c) England and Wales in each of the last three financial years; and how many such investigations subsequently resulted in a...
The number of investigations by DWP for benefit fraud in Bury St Edmunds is not available. The number of investigations for Suffolk, and England and Wales is shown as follows.
| Suffolk | England
and
Wales | |
| 2009-10 | 1,187 | 135,241 |
| 2010-11 | 1,242 | 140,275 |
| 2011-12 | 1,592 | 150,231 |
The number of convictions for benefit fraud in prosecutions taken by DWP in England and Wales in shown as follows. This information is not available by geographical region and was provided by the DWP Prosecution Division, (part of the CPS since 1 April 2012).
| England
and
Wales | |
| 2009-10 | 6,606 |
| 2010-11 | 8,084 |
| 2011-12 | 9,169 |
The information supplied by the Department has not been subjected to the rigorous quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics. It is therefore possible this information may change due to operational reasons.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many recorded offences of credit card fraud there were in each of the last three years; what the estimated cost was of those offences; and what proportion of those offences resulted in a conviction.
[129248]
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many recorded offences of credit card fraud there were in each of the last three years; what the estimated cost was of those offences; and what proportion of those offences resulted in a conviction.
[129248]
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Glen Watson:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many recorded offences of credit card fraud there were in each of the last three years; what the estimated cost was of those offences; and what proportion of those offences resulted in a conviction. (129248)
In the police recorded crime series for England and Wales, credit card fraud is not separately identifiable as such crimes will be recorded within the broader offence group of “Fraud by false representation: cheque, plastic card and online bank accounts”. The number of these offences recorded by the police for the last three financial years can be found in the table below.
| Number
of offences of fraud by false representation: cheque, plastic card and
online bank accounts recorded by the police in England and
Wales | |
| Financial
year | Number
of
offences |
| 2009-10 | 27,148 |
| 2010-11 | 24,942 |
| 2011-12 | 22,694 |
| Source:
Police Recorded Crime, Home
Office. |
These data have previously been published by the ONS in Appendix Table A4 released alongside the quarterly release of National Statistics on crime. The link to the appendix tables can be found on the ONS website here:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/period-ending-march-2012/stb-crime-stats-end-march-2012.html
The ONS have not estimated the cost of these offences but do publish information for plastic card fraud losses from the UK Cards Association in the quarterly crime statistics publications to give a fuller picture of crime:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/period-ending-june-2012/stb-crime-in-england-and-wales--year-ending-june-2012.html#tab-Fraud
Police recorded crime figures for Scotland are published at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice and data for Northern Ireland are published at:
http://www.psni.police.uk/index/updates/updates_statistics/update_crime_statistics.htm
Fraud offences are known to be under reported to the police, so the ONS have recently started publishing new data sources on fraud in the quarterly crime statistics publications. Data from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau are included in ONS crime statistics publications, and provide an estimate of the number of banking and payment related frauds involving cheque, plastic card and online bank accounts in the UK, including offences not reported to the police. This dataset is sourced from Action Fraud and industry sources and is still under development. It is published in Appendix Table A5, available from the following link:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/period-ending-march-2012/stb-crime-stats-end-march-2012.html
Information is not held centrally on the proportion of credit card fraud offences resulting in conviction. The Ministry of Justice are responsible for data on convictions and have published a table showing the number of convictions for the broader offence group of Fraud and Forgery in England and Wales over the last ten years. This is available from the conviction tables at the link below:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/statistics/criminal-justice/criminal-justice-statistics
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many fines were issued for benefit fraud in each year since 2006; and how much was received from such fines in each such year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many fines were issued for benefit fraud in each year since 2006; and how much was received from such fines in each such year.
| Number of administrative penalties issued | |
| 2006-07 | 9,810 |
| 2007-08 | 8,566 |
| 2008-09 | 7,160 |
| 2009-10 | 7,249 |
| Note: | |
| Data are not yet available for 2010-11. | |
| Source: | |
| Fraud and Error by Sector (FIBS) and Fraud Referral and Intervention Management System (FRAIMS). The figures are Management Information (MI) collected for the purpose of routine administration, and therefore have not been subjected to the rigorous quality assurance that is applied to DWP official statistics. |
| Total recoveries from administrative penalties (£ million) | |
| 2008-09 | 1.8 |
| 2009-10 | 1.7 |
| 2010-11 | 1.6 |
| Note: | |
| Data on the amount recovered prior to 2008-09 are not available. | |
| Source: | |
| The figures provided are from Shared Services Debt Manager via Business Objects computer system and are subject to rounding. The figures are Management Information (MI) collected for the purpose of routine administration, and therefore have not been subjected to the rigorous quality assurance that is applied to DWP official statistics. |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many cases were referred to the National Identity Fraud Unit in each year since 1997; how many such cases were investigated in each such year; and how many such cases subsequently resulted in a conviction.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many cases were referred to the National Identity Fraud Unit in each year since 1997; how many such cases were investigated in each such year; and how many such cases subsequently resulted in a conviction.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the sums not paid out by his Department for each benefit as a result of detection of benefit fraud in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the sums not paid out by his Department for each benefit as a result of detection of benefit fraud in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the proportion of benefit fraud committed in respect of each benefit which was attributable to identity fraud in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the proportion of benefit fraud committed in respect of each benefit which was attributable to identity fraud in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many instances of credit card fraud there were in each year since 1997; what estimate her Department has made of the sums lost through such fraud in each such year; and what proportion of such instances resulted in a...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many instances of credit card fraud there were in each year since 1997; what estimate her Department has made of the sums lost through such fraud in each such year; and what proportion of such instances resulted in a...
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.
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.
| 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. |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many recorded offences of credit card fraud there were in each year since 1997; what the estimated cost was of these offences; and what percentage of these offences resulted in a conviction.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many recorded offences of credit card fraud there were in each year since 1997; what the estimated cost was of these offences; and what percentage of these offences resulted in a conviction.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will take steps to compel credit card companies to report the (a) theft and (b) misuse of credit cards to the police; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will take steps to compel credit card companies to report the (a) theft and (b) misuse of credit cards to the police; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the savings to his Department from detected benefit fraud were in each year since 1997, broken down by benefit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the savings to his Department from detected benefit fraud were in each year since 1997, broken down by benefit.
| Instrument of Payment MVA (£) | |
| 1999-2000 | 20,470,863 |
| 2000-01 | 15,302,840 |
| 2001-02 | 9,322,117 |
| 2002-03 | 9,217,555 |
| 2003-04 | 7,916,299 |
| 2004-05 | 4,474,984 |
| 2005-06 | 2,824,939 |
| General Matching Service MVA (£) | |
| 1999-2000 | 951,885 |
| 2000-01 | 1,034,865 |
| 2001-02 | 1,340,080 |
| 2002-03 | 1,672,893 |
| 2003-04 | 1,577,042 |
| 2004-05 | 1,056,966 |
| 2005-06 | 1,324,906 |
| Benefit fraud MVA (£) | |
| 1999-2000 | 6,561,497 |
| 2000-01 | 5,771,922 |
| 2001-02 | 5,720,786 |
| 2002-03 | 5,167,365 |
| 2003-04 | 5,095,564 |
| 2004-05 | 5,190,263 |
| 2005-06 | 5,104,595 |