Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many payments were fraudulently charged to her Department’s budget using electronic purchasing cards in the financial years (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, and (c) 2021-22; and what was the total value of fraudulent payments (i) made and (ii) recovered in each of those years.
In the financial year 2019-20, four payments were fraudulently charged to the Department using electronic purchasing cards totalling £4000.
The Department obtained refunds from the bank and recovered all four fraudulent payments in the same financial year totalling £4000.
The Department had no fraudulent payments charged to the Department’s budget using electronic purchasing cards in the financial years 2020-21 and 2021-22.