§ Mr. Frank FieldTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many checks on national insurance numbers will have been completed by the end of 2001. [14130]
§ Dawn PrimaroloDuring the 1999–2000 tax year, 626,641 pay roll items were checked. Of these 288,924 errors were found and 6,223 cases were referred for potential fraud investigation.
During the 2000–01 tax year, 1,035,796 payroll items were checked of which 770,308 were found to contain errors and 22,777 were referred for potential fraud investigation.