United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 91906
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
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13 December 2021
Last action
20 December 2021 · Answer
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20 December 2021
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of the £510 million announced for tackling benefit fraud is (a) new funding and (b) previously allocated funding.
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Timeline
13 December 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of the £510 million announced for tackling benefit fraud is (a) new funding and (b) previously allocated funding.
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/2021-12-13/91906
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1387485
- uk · wq-1387485 · source updated 20 December 2021