§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will place in the Library a breakdown by local authority of(a) savings achieved under the Weekly Benefit Savings scheme, (b) benefit expenditure and (c) weekly benefit savings as a percentage of benefit expenditure for (i) 2000–01 and (ii) 2001–02. [172979]
§ Mr. Pond[holding answer 13 May 2004]: The information has been placed in the Library.
For local authorities, the Weekly Benefit Saving (WBS) scheme was replaced by the Security Against Fraud and Error (SAFE) scheme on 1 April 2002. The WBS scheme was specifically for fraud and was a measurement of prevention whereas the SAFE scheme is for fraud and claimant error and rewards detection.