Question follow-through · 127453
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help tackle content advising individuals to misrepresent health conditions for financial gain though the benefits system.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 24 Apr 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help tackle content advising individuals to misrepresent health conditions for financial gain though the benefits system.
20 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Apr 2026
Answer published
I refer the Hon. member to the answer I gave on 24th March 2026 to PQ 123138.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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