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tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
min question first answered	2015-02-02T16:24:59.557Z
min ddp modified	2015-02-08T12:26:05.633Z
min answer › question first answered	2014-07-14T14:44:45.1714237Z
uin	224908

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registered interest

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23/02/2015

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Department for Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

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Social Security Benefits: Fraud

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25259

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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of his Department's expenditure is allocated to preventing, detecting and handling cases of fraud and error in the benefits system; and how many staff in his Department work on those issues.

tabling member constituency

Birkenhead

tabling member printed

Mr Frank Field

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224908

answer

is ministerial correction

date of answer

26/02/2015

answer text

The Fraud and Error Service (FES), part of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for the investigation of fraud against all benefits administered by DWP. The 14/15 budget allocation for preventing, detecting and handling cases of fraud and error in the benefits system is:-£148.5m. The headcount for FES at the end of January 2015 was 5,057 which is a full time equivalent of 4,502 staff.

answering member constituency

Forest of Dean

answering member printed

Mr Mark Harper

question first answered

26/02/2015 15:09:13

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label	Biography information for Mr Mark Harper

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label	Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead