Question follow-through · 27880
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 31 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 5 Feb 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Jan 2025
Question tabled
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.
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Feb 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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