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1691079

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date	22/02/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he is taking steps to improve investigations into benefit fraud.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	15275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>In May 2022 the Department for Work and Pensions launched a robust plan to drive down fraud and error from the benefits system.</p><p> </p><p>The “Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System” plan sits alongside additional investment of £900 million that will deliver £2.4 billion of savings by the end of 24/25.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 27/02/2024 15:04:56 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1611148

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what discussions she has had with the Department of Communities NI on preventative steps to tackle benefit fraud in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	180777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2023 answer text <p>The Attorney General has had no discussions with the Department of Communities NI regarding benefit fraud.</p><p>The welfare system in Northern Ireland is a devolved matter.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 08/05/2023 12:16:58 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1565827

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to tackle benefit fraud.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	120971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2023 answer text <p>We take all fraud very seriously. Our Fraud Plan, Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System, published on 19 May 2022, sets out our approach and explains how the additional investment is allowing us to recruit 1,400 more staff into our counter-fraud teams, establish a new 2,000-strong team dedicated to reviewing the circumstances of large volumes of the Universal Credit caseload over the next 5 years and develop enhanced data analytics as a means of preventing and detecting fraud and error.</p><p> </p><p>More information on our Fraud Plan, can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fighting-fraud-in-the-welfare-system/fighting-fraud-in-the-welfare-system--2" target="_blank">Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>This work is supported by two tranches of additional investment totalling around £900m, which will help prevent a further £2.4bn of loss by 2024/25. This investment includes money allocated via the Autumn Statement, which will help prevent abuse of the system and drive forward our UC case checks.</p><p> </p><p>Collectively, this builds on the existing work and measures DWP has in place to address overpayments, with savings from the correction and prevention of fraud and error totalling £2 billion last year.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 17/01/2023 14:22:24 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1386550

registered interest
date	09/12/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to tackle benefits fraud.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	90416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>The Department takes fraud against the benefits system very seriously and has taken huge steps to reduce and minimise fraud and error, including during the last 18 months, at a time where the Department processed an additional 3 million new Universal Credit claims. In the last 18 months we have:</p><ul><li>Expanded our Integrated Risk and Intelligence Service that coordinate the detection of, and response to, fraud risk from organised crime groups seeking to exploit the benefit system.</li><li>Invested £44m into the Integrated Risk and Intelligence Service to expand the pre-payment ‘risking’ techniques and maintain the new Enhanced Checking Service for high risk claims.</li><li>Revisited over 900,000 high risk claims paid during the early period of Covid-19, generating potentially £400m in savings.</li></ul><ul><li>Announced £510m investment this month to support a number of new initiatives over the next three years. This will facilitate a targeted review of Universal Credit claims, the development of a new Debt Enforcement Function and further recruitment into the Counter Fraud and Compliance and Debt Directorate so that we can continue to respond quickly and effectively to threats. This includes funding for around 2,000 trained specialists to identify and stop scammers.</li></ul><p> </p><p>We regularly liaise with Northern Ireland counterparts on both a case specific basis and on wider fraud and error issues.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 17/12/2021 14:05:23 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon