HC Deb 08 March 2000 vol 345 cc730-1W
Dr. Lynne Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make a statement on the level of fraudulent claims for Family Credit in the last five years. [113296]

Mr. Rooker

The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the table.

The number of cases of Family Credit fraud detected for the last three years
Year Number of fraud cases detected
1996–97 3,366
1997–98 5,173
1998–99 10,860

Note:

We do not have statistically valid figures for the level of Family Credit fraud

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