Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people found to be committing benefit fraud and not prosecuted in court in each of the last two years (a) have repaid monies due in full, (b) are actively making repayments, (c) are in arrears with their repayments and (d) have since been prosecuted for breaching their agreement to pay.

Information in the form requested for questions a, b and c is not readily available and could only be compiled at disproportionate cost.

In answer to question d, the Department does not hold this information.