PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fraud (11 December 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the cost of (a) fraud and (b) financial error in (i) his Department, (ii) its executive agencies and (iii) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Lucy Powell (Labour)

Before 2012/13 fraud data was published within the HM Treasury Fraud Report or estimated in the National Fraud Authority Annual Fraud Indicators. From 2012/13 figures on fraud and financial error have been provided to the Cabinet Office as part of the Quarterly Data Summary returns, for Central Departments, and all Arms Length Bodies who receive over £100m public funding per annum.

The reported cost of fraud and error for the Department for Energy and Climate Change and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is set out in the table below.

	2012-13 £(k)		2013-14 £(k)		2014-15 (6 months) £(k)
	DECC	NDA	DECC	NDA	DECC	NDA
Fraud & Error	10	0	30	0	0	0

Answered by:
Amber Rudd (Independent)
17 December 2014