Question follow-through · 65820
National Insurance: Fraud
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to protect National Insurance numbers from repeated (a) misuse and (b) fraud.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to protect National Insurance numbers from repeated (a) misuse and (b) fraud.
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jul 2025
Answer published
A National Insurance Number (NINo) is a unique reference number used to administer the Benefits and National Insurance systems. It is not proof of identity and cannot be used on its own to access HMRC records or systems.HMRC regularly urges customers to b...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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