§ Mr. Michael Brownasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people have been successfully convicted of social security fraud since 1 January.
§ Mr. PrenticeRecords are not kept in such a form as to readily identify successful prosecutions for social security fraud since 1 January 1979. However I am able to inform my hon. Friend that, in the statistical year ended 20 February 1979, there were 28,002 prosecutions, of which 27,430 resulted in convictions.