§ Mr. Frank FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if his Department completed the planned checks on national insurance numbers in 2000; and how many of those checks resulted in anomalies that were passed to fraud investigators. [14128]
§ Dawn PrimaroloI have been asked to reply.
During the 1999–2000 tax year, 626,641 payroll 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.
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§ Mr. Frank FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate how many national insurance accounts exist where no contributions are being made; and what assessment he has made of the actual or potential fraudulent use of such accounts. [14129]
§ Dawn PrimaroloI have been asked to reply.
There are approximately 14 million national insurance accounts in existence where contributors have made no contributions or received any credits for over 3 years or more.
An assessment shows that there is no evidence to suggest that there is any higher incidence of actual or potential fraud on these accounts compared to any other.