PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fraud (11 December 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 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 Foreign and Commonwealth Office is set out in the table below:

	Department	Agency		NDPB
	FCO	FCO Services	Wilton Park	British Council	Great Britain China Centre	Westminster Foundation for Democracy	Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission
2013/2014	£1,405	£12	£0	£163	£0	£0	£0
2012/2013	£1,115	£0	£0	£168	£0	£0	£0
2011/2012	£944	£15	£0	£21	£0	£0	£0
2010/2011	£3,423	£202	£0	£17	£0	£0	£0
2009/2010	£11,596	£22	£0	£33	£0	£0	£2

To note, there has been a supplier mandate fraud at the FCO this year amounting to £980k. This has been reported to Parliament and the National Audit Office.

Answered by:
Sir David Lidington (Conservative)
18 December 2014