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		Written answer
	answer has question	eCxPwXKn
	answer has answering person	Thomas Christopher John Pursglove
	answer text	<p>The department’s view is that serious and organised crime accounts for only a small minority of the total fraud reported for 2021/22, with the vast majority being individual claimants who have misrepresented their own personal circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>The department has a strong counter-fraud function, which includes specifically targeting serious and organised crime including cyber-crime, which identifies and stops illegal activity and saves money for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>Current estimates are that serious and organised crime accounts for no more than 7% of the £6.5 billion of benefit fraud reported in the 2021/22 statistics, as it is most likely captured in the Abroad and Conditions of Entitlement (Identity) categories of fraud reported there.</p>
	answer given date	2023-05-02
	answer has answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	written answer has answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions	answering body has written answer	rqEWdPYL
Department for Work and Pensions	answering body has answer	rqEWdPYL
eCxPwXKn	question has answer	rqEWdPYL
Thomas Christopher John Pursglove	answering person has answer	rqEWdPYL