Question follow-through · 36963
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle fraud in the welfare system by serious and organised criminal gangs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 13 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle fraud in the welfare system by serious and organised criminal gangs.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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13 Mar 2025
Answer published
DWP works collaboratively across Government Departments and Law Enforcement Agencies on investigations into benefit fraud carried out by organised crime gangs. New powers in the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill will strengthen our capab...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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