§ Mr. FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer of 13 March 2000,Official Report, column 53W, (a) what types of fraud the new scans of national insurance numbers will identify that previous scans have not been able to, (b) what estimate he has made of how many fraudulent numbers there will be for each type of anticipated fraud and (c) how many numbers on the Departmental Central Index will be scanned using the new technique. [115204]
§ Mr. RookerThe scans of National Insurance numbers are designed primarily to identify anomalies and duplicate records, rather than specific areas of fraud.
It is not possible to estimate how many cases of fraud will be identified by scans, or the type of fraud involved.
Each scan involves checking the whole of the Departmental Central Index database, some 81 million accounts.