§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many of his Department's fraud investigation teams have been used in the Wolverhampton district and travel-to-work area in the period 1979 to date; how many cases have been investigated; how many people have had their benefits withdrawn; and how many have subsequently been restored on appeal.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe investigation of unemployment benefit fraud in the Wolverhampton area is carried out by staff based at Wolverhampton unemployment benefit office. In the period 1979 to date a total of 328 cases have been investigated. In 183 of these claimants have been disallowed benefit and in no case has benefit subsequently been restored on appeal.
There have been no special exercises by other fraud investigation teams in the Wolverhampton area.