PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fraud (11 December 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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)

(i) This information is available in the public domain. Please see the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system

(ii) and (iii) Non Departmental Public Bodies and Executive Agencies:

Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Independent Living Fund (ILF), National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS), The Pensions Regulator (TPR), Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC), Pensions Ombudsmen (PO), Pension Protection Fund Ombudsmen (PPFO), Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC):

Please note that Remploy Ltd, the Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Pension Protection Fund are all Public Corporations and are therefore not included in this response.

	2009- 2010		2010-2011		2011-2012		2012-2013		2013-2014
EA / NDPB	Error £	Fraud £	Error £	Fraud £	Error £	Fraud £	Error £	Fraud £	Error £	Fraud £
HSE	-	-	352.50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ILF	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NEST	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.4m	-	-
TPAS	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
TPR	4318	-	201	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IIAC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
PO	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
PPFO	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
SSAC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
SMCPC	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	No estimate	No estimate	No estimate	No estimate

Both HSE and TPR made full recovery in the years the debts were incurred. NEST recovered £0.3 million in May 2014.

Answered by:
Mr Mark Harper (Conservative)
18 December 2014