Special Investigators (Hansard, 9 March 1978)

§ Mr. Hordern
asked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will now give the information for 1976 and 734W this compares with (a) the North-West regional level, and (b) the national level.

§ Mr. Golding
The following table gives the monthly unemployment rates from January 1974 to February 1978 for the areas specified:
for the latest available period in 1977 in the same form as it was provided for 1975 in paragraph 61 of the Ninth Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, Session 1976–77, showing the 735W number of special investigators in post and how many frauds were found from how many cases examined.

§ Mr. Golding
The information requested is given below:

1976 1977^*

(a) Number of Special Investigators 61 69

(b) Number of cases in which evidence of fraud found 5,221 5,771

(c) Number of cases examined 9,587 8,900

^* to 1st November

	1976	1977^*
(a) Number of Special Investigators	61	69
(b) Number of cases in which evidence of fraud found	5,221	5,771
(c) Number of cases examined	9,587	8,900
^* to 1st November