Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost of (a) fraud and (b) financial error in (i) his Department, (ii) its executive agencies and (iii) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last five years.

Before 2012/13 fraud data was published within the HM Treasury Fraud Report or estimated in the National Fraud Authority Annual Fraud Indicators. During 2011/12 Cabinet Office suffered one fraud that was below the reporting threshold. The member of staff responsible was dismissed and the money recovered in full.

From 2012/13 figures on fraud and financial error have been provided to the Cabinet Office as part of the Quarterly Data Summary returns, for Central Departments, and all ALBs who receive over £100m public funding per annum. Cabinet Office reported no fraud or financial error for 2012/13 or 2013/14.