Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, 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 year from 2015.
The cost of a) fraud and b) error to the Department and its agencies is zero, since all identified fraud losses have been recovered subsequently. In the instances of 'error', which is generally caused by internal employee payment issues, the Department recovers these losses through payroll so there is no outstanding cost to the Department or its agencies to report.