§ Mr. HealdTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many suspected benefit frauds have(a) been investigated and (b) resulted in a successful prosecution as a result of (i) submissions to the Targeting Fraud website and (ii) calls to the National Benefit Fraud Hotline in each year since 1997. [85991]
§ Malcolm WicksThe available information is in the tables.
Targeting fraud website (launched May 2000) Period Investigations completed Successful Prosecutions 1 May 2000 to 31 March 2001 184 0 2001–02 673 4 1 April 2002 to 31 October 2002 722 9 Full information on the number of investigations and successful prosecutions resulting from calls to the National Benefit Fraud Hotline is available only from April 2000.
National benefit fraud hotline Period Investigations completed Successful Prosecutions 2000–01 35,589 492 2001–02 108,986 768 1 April 2002 to 31 October 2002 58,592 432 Source:
Fraud Information By Sector system