Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many administrative penalties her Department has levied on victims of universal credit fraud who attended interviews under caution and who were accompanied by legal representatives.

Administrative Penalties would not be used in any case where evidence showed that a claimant was an innocent victim of Universal Credit advances fraud.

Administrative Penalties are financial penalties which can be used as an alternative to prosecution in cases where benefit fraud has been committed.