§ Mr. Freud.asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will list in the Official Report the numbers and percentages of those prosecuted for fraud by his Department who were (a) claimants of unemployment benefit, (b) claimants of supplementary benefit and (c) not claimants of either unemployment benefit or supplementary benefit for each of the last three years.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsThe information is as follows:
£'s at outturn prices 1975–76 5,140 1976–77 6,000 1977–78 5,430 1978–79 6,360 1979–80(1) 7,510 (1) The 1979–80 figure, which is the latest available, is provisional.