§ Mr. Fieldasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide for each year since 1977–78 figures showing (a) public authority expenditure on social security payments, (b) the total amount of irrecoverable overpayments, (c) the amount of known overpayment through fraud, (d) the number of prosecutions by his Department for suspected fraud, (e) the number of successful prosecutions, (f) (e) as a percentage of (d), (g) the number of his Department's special investigators in post for each year, (h) the estimated gross savings made as a result of special investigation work, (i) the estimated cost of the special investigators, and (j) the costs (i) as a percentage of the gross savings (h).
§ Mr. Rossi[pursuant to his reply, 21 May 1981, c. 165–7]: The column headed 1980–81 for item (a) should read £22,075 million and item (b) should read Not Available.