§ Mr. Nicholas BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make a statement about the fraudulent use of national insurance numbers.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardThe Department makes every effort to ensure that members of the public have correctly issued national insurance numbers and that others cannot use them to make fraudulent claims to benefit.
§ Mr. Nicholas BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list for the last available year the number of(a) national insurance numbers used by more than one person and (b) credits made by employers to false or non-existent national insurance numbers.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardThe information regarding the misuse of NI numbers is not available. Employers cannot credit NI accounts. Contributions paid by employers on behalf of themselves and their employees are subject to strict accounting controls.