Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of the cases reviewed by the Risk Review Team have been suspended as a result of suspected (a) fraud and (b) error as of 12 May 2022.

DWP does not suspend benefit lightly.

All the 175,826 claims suspended by the Risk Review Team to date have been as a result of suspected fraud.

None have been suspended as the result of error.