§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list recoveries worth more than £500,000 secured by the NHS Counter Fraud team since 1997. [127732]
§ Mr. HuttonFigures dating from 1997 are not available. The National Health Service Counter Fraud Service, now the Counter Fraud and Security Management Service (CFSMS), was formed in 1998, with the overall remit to tackle fraud and corruption within the NHS.
The CFSMS has, to date, demonstrated a £70 million a year reduction in losses to fraud through preventative action and recovered over £14 million of fraudulently obtained money through our investigative work.
Individual cases, where in excess of £500,000 has been secured by CFSMS, are shown in the table. There are many other cases, where recoveries have been secured and the individual amounts concerned are less than £500,000.
Subject Amount of recovery (£) Pharmaceutical Products Supplier 650,000 Pharmaceutical Products Supplier 1,128,000 Pharmaceutical Products Supplier 1,337,680 Pharmaceutical Products Supplier 1,750,000 Dispensing Doctor (GP) 799,087 Dentist 1,150,000 Total 6,814,767