| Heading: |
Social Security Benefits: Fraud |
| Question ID: |
1760840 |
| UIN: |
27880 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-31 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4638 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
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| Asking Member handle: |
TanDhesi
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@TanDhesi
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent trends in the level of fraud in the welfare system. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-05 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
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: |
Fraud and error in the welfare system has reduced in recent years, from 4.0% in 2021/22 to 3.7% in 2023/24. This is still not good enough, so we are not resting. We agreed £8.6bn of savings at the Autumn Budget 2024, which is the biggest fraud and error p... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |