Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of benefit fraud committed in respect of each benefit which was attributable to identity fraud in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk, (c) the East of England and (d) England and Wales in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

The information requested is not readily available. This is because the data is not collated in the format requested. This information could only be provided by examining individual investigation files. This could only be conducted at disproportionate time and cost.