§ Mr. LawsTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much money has been lost by her Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies through(a) fraud and (b) theft for each year since 1996–97. [92473]
§ Ms HewittThe estimated cost of theft and fraud to the Department and its agencies is as follows.
Theft DTI(£) Agencies (£) 1998 11,267 1— 1999 10,985 1— 2000 5,870 1— 2001 18,782 1— 2002 65,131 23,133 1 Not available Information on thefts and losses in agencies is not normally held centrally in the DTI and it was not possible to identify costs for years before 2002 without incurring disproportionate cost. The DTI does not hold information on thefts in NDPBs.