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<p>The Department checks for duplicate supplier payments as part of the business as
usual processes within the finance team. As part of the internal process checks the
Department has identified the value of duplicate supplier payments since 2010 as £1,287,260.31.</p><p>
</p><p>The proportion of such payments the Department has recovered following these
internal checks in each of the last two financial years is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>(i)
Payments for 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013 - £325,456.94 - of which 100% has been
recovered based on the internal processes.</p><p>(ii) Payments for 1 April 2013 to
31 March 2014 – £282,198.56 - of which 100% has been recovered based on the internal
processes.</p><p> </p><p>For completeness, in the financial year 2010-11 the value
of such payments was £510,599.10 of which 99.7% was recovered, and in financial year
2011-12 the value of such payments was £169,005.71 of which 98.6% was recovered.</p><p>
</p><p>Further investigations are taking place into duplicate payments made as part
of a Spend Recovery Audit that the Department has commissioned externally and we will
seek to recover any further duplicates identified as part of this exercise.</p><p>
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