Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of theft and fraud to (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last ten years.

Any costs or losses arising from theft or fraud against HM Treasury’s core department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies are reported each financial year in the department’s Annual Report and Accounts under Losses and Special Payments, which fall within the department’s Parliamentary Accountability Disclosures.

For further reference, the Cabinet Office Centre of Expertise on Counter Fraud publishes the Cross-Government Fraud Landscape Annual Report, which consolidates quarterly returns by departments on fraud and error. The NAO also published a Fraud Landscape Review in 2016, since when annual reporting by the Cabinet Office has been enhanced.