Ministry of Defence: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
(asked on 5th September 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many payments were fraudulently charged to his 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.
The total number of payments proven to have been fraudulently charged to the Ministry of Defence budget, using electronic purchasing cards in the financial years 2019-20, 2020-21, and 2021-22, together with their value and the amounts recovered are as follows:
Financial Year | Number of Fraudulent Payments | Value of Fraud | Amount Recovered |
2019-20 | Nil | Not applicable | Not applicable |
2021-21 | 1 | £698 | £698 |
2021-22 | 2 | £250.44 | £250.44 |
The above data comprises fraud that has been detected and logged within the Confidential Hotlines Case Management System, and dates are based on when the cases were logged on the system. It also only includes cases that are closed and where the fraud has been proven.