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Main Page: Mark Fletcher (Conservative - Bolsover)Department Debates - View all Mark Fletcher's debates with the Department for Work and Pensions
(11 months, 3 weeks ago)
Commons ChamberI can only repeat that, compared with 2009-10, there are 400,000 fewer children in absolute poverty after housing costs.
We continue to bear down on fraud and error. It decreased by 10% in 2022-23. There is of course still more to be done, which is why we are investing £900 million to reduce that figure still further by £2.4 billion by 2024-25.
During the pandemic, the Government rightly got support out to people as quickly as possible, but that inevitably meant that errors were made and some people took advantage of the situation. What is being done to clamp down on fraud and errors in universal credit?