§ Mr. FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer of 7 April 2000,Official Report, column 627W, on fraud, if he will list (a) the cost and duration of each initiative since 1 May 1997, (b) estimate the contribution in fraud savings each initiative has made and (c) estimate the fraud savings for each of the last three years for each benefit affected by such initiatives. [119216]
§ Mr. RookerThe information is in the table. I refer my right hon. Friend to the written answer on savings I gave on 7 April 2000,Official Report, column 627W.
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Initiatives started on or after May 1997—Benefits Agency (BA) Initiative/project Cost (£ million) Start date End date Closer Working with East of Scotland 0.1 April 1999 Continuing FAMC London Project 0.23 1997 October 1999—Migrated to IR Habitual Residency Test 0.3 July 1999 November 1999—Recommendation for full implementation across the Agency Housing Benefit Matching Service 2.35 1997 April 1999—Now part of BA core IS/JSA Premiums 0.04 July 1999 Continuing JSA Initiatives 0.02 April 1999 Fixes implemented NCA/TR Central Team costs 2.5 1997 April 1999—Now a core activity NCA/TR Training 0.4 1997 April 1999—Now a core activity Operation Rattle 0.18 1997 Continuing—As a Child Benefit initiative Overpayment of Legal Aid 0.22 September 1999 Continuing Potential Debt 0.11 1997 August 1999—Continuing as the Strategic Debt solution PPE measurement 0.79 1997 April 1999—Contributed to the performance indicators Production of regs 113 by electronic media 0.02 July 1999 Continuing Professionalism in Security 2.88 July 1998 Continuing Programme Expenditure Analysis 0.16 April 1999 Continuing Risk management 1.46 1997 Continuing RMS 0.42 1997 31 March 1998—Now part of core SAST 0.10 1997 Continuing Search by address enhancements 0.13 1997 Continuing Securing Family Credit 1.23 1997 October 1999—Migrated to IR Security Projects Group 0.27 1997 April 1999—Transferred into core MIDAS function Social Fund—off Benefit recovery 0.22 August 1999 Continuing Chilterns Secure Payments Initiative 0.74 May 1997 Continuing National Fraud database 0.30 June 1999 Continuing Gateways 0.52 Oct 1998 March 2000—Migration papers under development Payroll Cleanse 0.82 April 1998 April 2000—Migrated into core Customer Account Security (Operational) 0.85 October 1998 Continuing Construction Industry Scheme 0.36 May 1998 March 2000—Migrated into core National Intelligence Unit 0.51 October 1998 Continuing Controlled Risk Self Assessment 0.06 April 1999 March 2000—Now operating Certificate of Conformance Fraud and Security Strategy 1.5 April 1999 Continuing LA Verification Framework 34.50 March 1998 Continuing Weekly Benefit savings 0.002 12 January 2000 Continuing Electronic Transfer of Data 0.83 August 1999 Continuing Remote Access Terminals 7.00 August 1998 Continuing LA Prosecution Pilot, England and Wales 0.04 November 1998 Continuing Scampion 0.09 February 1999 Continuing National Housing Benefit Accuracy Review 2.0 April 1997 October 1998—Findings published by GSS Large Scale Local Review project 2.0 April 1997 Continuing