United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 91905
Housing Benefit: Fraud
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Introduced
13 December 2021
Last action
20 December 2021 · Answer
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Answered
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Housing
Source updated
20 December 2021
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of the £510 million of funding allocated to tackling benefit fraud will be allocated to tackling housing benefit fraud.
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13 December 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of the £510 million of funding allocated to tackling benefit fraud will be allocated to tackling housing benefit fraud.
Source: Commons
20 December 2021
Answer
The additional £510m announced on 13th December 2021 is new funding that will enable us to drive down the level of fraud in Universal Credit and recover more debt. It will support several different methods of fraud detection and prevention, including a ta...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-12-13/91905
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1387484
- uk · wq-1387484 · source updated 20 December 2021