Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a target for the reduction of (a) fraud and (b) error overpayments by his Department.

The Department for Work and Pensions is committed to setting Fraud and Error targets as set out in its response to the Treasury Minutes to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Twenty Sixth report of session 2022. This has a target implementation date of Summer 2023.

CP 781 – Treasury Minutes Government Response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Twenty-third to the Twenty-sixth reports from Session 2022-23 – January 2023 (publishing.service.gov.uk).