HC Deb 03 May 1976 vol 910 cc276-7W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people were prosecuted during the last year to the latest available date for claiming social security benefits illegally and what sums of money were involved.

Mr. Orme

The number of persons prosecuted in 1975 for all types of benefit fraud was 15,342. No record is kept of the sums of money involved.

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