§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will instruct police forces not to co-operate in the passing of information to the Department of Social Security fraud investigators.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggNo. The police may need to liaise with social security fraud investigators from time to time when, for instance, evidence of social security fraud comes to light in the course of police inquiries into other matters, or when the social security fraud investigators refer a case to the police because of its gravity.