Ministry of Defence: Fraud

(asked on 23rd November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cases Fraud Defence opened in each year from 2019 to 2023 as of 23 November 2023.


Answered by
Andrew Murrison Portrait
Andrew Murrison
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 28th November 2023

Fraud Defence is the central team leading the Counter Fraud Function within Defence and operates an independent investigation team. Below are the number of new cases opened by the Fraud Defence investigation team by year.

Year

New cases opened

2019

21

2020

9

2021

15

2022

20

2023

7

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