§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his answer of 13 January 2004,Official Report, column 708W, on agency staff, if he will estimate the cost of fraud covered by criminal prosecutions; and what extrapolation has been made from these figures of the wider cost of timesheet fraud. [149853]
§ Mr. HuttonThe value of detected fraud amounts to £33,465 in those cases resulting in criminal prosecution of agency staff. No wider, meaningful extrapolation can be made from this figure.