Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to pages 31 and 32 of the report entitled Cross-Government Fraud Landscape: Annual Report 2022, published on 21 March 2023, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the increase in detected error in her Department from £0.0 in 2019-20 to £0.1 in 2020-21.

DCMS is committed to tackling fraud and error wherever it is identified. A key strand of this work is ensuring better reporting of fraud and error, within the department and its public bodies.

Minor fluctuations in reported error are expected year on year, and do not represent a change in our overall risk profile or failure of financial control.