Social Security Benefits: Fraud
(asked on 26th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Government has spent on advertising aimed at reducing benefit fraud since May 2010.
This question was answered on 1st December 2014
Since May 2010 expenditure on advertising aimed at reducing benefit fraud has been:
Expenditure for campaigns | ||
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Year | Campaign | Total amount |
2010/11 | Targeting Benefit Thieves | £26,118 |
2011/12 | Targeting Benefit Thieves | £82,605 |
2012/13 | none | Nil |
2013/14 | Benefits. Are you doing the right thing? Phase I |
£51,503 |
2014/15 | Benefits: Are you doing the right thing? Phase II |
£555,920 |