§ Ms LynneTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what assessment he has made of the contribution to the decline in detected savings in tackling organised methods of payment fraud of(a) a real reduction in fraud and (b) a decline in the detection of fraud. [1105]
§ Mr. HealdI refer the hon. Member to the answer that I gave on 26 October 1995,Official Report, column 800.
There is no evidence that investigation work is less successful, and we believe that the reduction in savings is directly attributable to the preventive measures that we have put in place to prevent and deter instrument of payment fraud.