Question follow-through · 23509
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce levels of fraud in the welfare system.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 21 Sept 2026 · 24 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce levels of fraud in the welfare system.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Sept 2026
Answer published
Since the Autumn Budget 2024 DWP has committed to delivering gross savings of £14.6bn up to the end of 2030-31 from fraud, error and debt activity In 2026, the Department has continued to strengthen its approach to tackling fraud and error across the welf...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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