PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fraud (11 December 2014)

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

Asked by:
Lucy Powell (Labour)

Previously reported fraud data was collected on behalf of HM Treasury. Archived reports can be found at:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110402/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/psr_managing_risk_of_fraud.htm

Currently the Home Office collects data for inclusion in the Quarterly Data Survey, as part of a Cabinet Office initiative, and shows combined totals of reported fraud and error for the Home Office and its executive agencies.

The Home Office has collected data for financial error since 2012/13, and is also published as part of a broader Cabinet Office initiative within the Quarterly Data Summary. Prior to 2012-13, the Home Office did not report the
value of financial error data. The Home Office does not collect data on financial error for Non-Departmental Public Bodies.

Answered by:
Dame Karen Bradley (Conservative)
18 December 2014