§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Prime Minister what factors led to the decision to ask Sir Derek Rayner to carry out a review of social security fraud.
§ The Prime MinisterNo such request has been made, and no such review has been carried out. The hon. Member no doubt has in mind the recently published report on a study of payment of benefits to people who are unemployed, from which a number of newspapers picked up and highlighted one out of 81 recommendations. The main theme of the report is a better system of paying unemployed people the benefit to which they are entitled.