PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fraud (11 December 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the cost of (a) fraud and (b) financial error in (i) her Department and (ii) its non-departmental public body 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.

Answered by:
Justine Greening (Independent)
18 December 2014