Question follow-through · 65821

National Insurance: Fraud

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the potential merits of introducing real-time alerts for compromised National Insurance numbers.

answeredTreasury

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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

  1. 8 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the potential merits of introducing real-time alerts for compromised National Insurance numbers.

  2. 10 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Department for Work and Pensions have processes in place to flag NINos and will monitor flagged NINos daily for inappropriate use.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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