Social Security Benefits: East of England
(asked on 9th January 2015) - View Source
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 which was attributable to identity fraud for each benefit in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire,(c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each year since 2005 for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 16th January 2015
As no central record is kept detailing the information the MP is requesting, this information could only be provided by examining individual investigation files. This could only be conducted at disproportionate time and cost.