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Social Security Benefits: Fraud |
| Question ID: |
1760997 |
| UIN: |
902515 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5010 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Damien Egan
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Damien Egan
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress her Department has made on tackling fraud in the welfare system. |
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true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-03 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4979 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Western
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| Answering Member handle: |
andrewhwestern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@andrewhwestern
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| Answer text: |
We are delivering £8.6bn of new savings over the next five years to tackle fraud. This includes recruiting an additional 3,000 counter-fraud staff, committing to deliver the Targeted Case Review in Universal Credit and bringing forward savings of £1.5bn t... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |