HC Deb 24 January 1978 vol 942 cc557-8W
Mrs. Chalker

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the number of special investigators of benefit fraud in his Department for each year since 1961.

Mr. Golding

The number of special investigators employed in the Department of Employment in each year—December—since 1961 is:

1961 nil
1962 nil
1963 (appointed January) 4
1964 4
1965 4
1966 12
1967 12
1968 12
1969 12
1970 12
1971 30
1972 30
1973 30
1974 45
1975 51
1976 55
1977 76