Departmental Fraud (Hansard, 31 March 2003)

HC Deb 31 March 2003 vol 402 c596W 596W

§ Mr. Laws
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much money has been lost by his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies through(a) fraud and (b) theft in each year since 1996–97. [92477]

§ Malcolm Wicks
Information in the exact form requested is not available. Such information that is available is shown in the following two tables.
(a) Fraud
The following table is an extract from the Department for Work and Pensions Annual Fraud Return to HM Treasury. It shows losses due to confirmed internal fraud only.
No information is available relating to internal fraud in non-departmental public bodies.
No information is available relating to theft in non-departmental public bodies.