Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency: Fraud
(asked on 5th March 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 33910, how many staff were employed at the Fraud team at the DVSA at the end of (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021, (d) 2022 and (e) 2023.
The table below shows the number of people employed within the Counter Fraud & Investigation team at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency for the years ending 2019 to 2024.
Year-end | Headcount | Full Time Equivalent (FTE) |
Dec 2019 | 48 | 47.26 |
Dec 2020 | 48 | 46.47 |
Dec 2021 | 50 | 49.25 |
Dec 2022 | 48 | 47.25 |
Dec 2023 | 48 | 47.6 |
Dec 2024 | 65* | 59* |
*In 2024-25, the team dedicated to investigating fraud in the driver theory and practical test schemes was doubled as a result of additional funding provided by the Department for Transport.