Right to Buy Scheme: Fraud

(asked on 20th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department has taken to investigate fraud relating to the Right to Buy scheme.


Answered by
Dominic Raab Portrait
Dominic Raab
This question was answered on 11th January 2018

This Government takes fraud extremely seriously. The Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act 2013 increased the deterrent to tenants considering cheating the system. The act ensured that those who do cheat are detected more easily and punished more severely and encouraged social landlords to take a more proactive approach to tackling tenancy fraud.

We also provided £19 million of funding to help councils tackle tenancy fraud. This formed part of over £35 million government funding to tackle fraud across Local Government.

As the Government develops the voluntary Right to Buy scheme in collaboration with the housing association sector, we are taking steps to ensure that fraud prevention measures are built into the sales process. To inform this work and identify additional safeguards, we have set up a working group with representatives of housing associations, local authorities and lenders.

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