Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the annual cost of fraud in the NHS.
For 2016-17 the estimated level of fraud in the National Health Service in England was £1.29 billion. The NHS Counter Fraud Authority will produce its revised Strategic Intelligence Assessment of the estimated level of fraud in the NHS in England for 2017-18 shortly.