§ Mr. Kenneth Clarkeasked the Secretary of State for Social Services which of the recommendations of the Report of the Fisher Committee on Abuse of Social Security Benefits, Command Paper No. 5228, have now been put into practice.
§ Mr. O'MalleyThe following recommendations, in so far as they did not reflect existing practice, have been implemented:
Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 17, 19, 22, 23, 26, 30, 31, 32, 33, 39, 42, 46, 47, 48, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 62, 64, 65, 70, 72, 73, 74, 82, 83.
The recommendations shown below have all been accepted in principle and a good deal of work has already been done on these:
Nos. 13, 15, 21, 27, 28, 29, 34, 35, 37, 40, 41, 43, 44, 49, 58, 61, 63, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 75, 76, 81, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88.
§ Mr. Kenneth Clarkeasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many officials are employed in the specialist branch in the headquarters of her Department that is examining the problem of social security fraud and abuse.
§ Mr. O'MalleySixty-four.
§ Mr. Kenneth Clarkeasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many cases of fraudulent social security claims have been detected in each of the 184W years 1970 to 1975 that arose from undisclosed earnings in each of the occupations set out as giving particular scope for concealment of earnings by the Fisher Committee at page 238 of its Report, Command Paper No. 5228.
§ Mr. O'MalleyOur records are not kept in a form which would enable this information to be provided.