Social Security Benefits: Fraud
(asked on 4th April 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department’s investigators can apply to police to have individuals suspected of committing fraud against the Department arrested.
This question was answered on 23rd April 2025
Where appropriate, DWP can apply to the Police to undertake an arrest as part of a criminal investigation into suspected fraud.