Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the policy that her Department’s Integrated Risk and Intelligence Service use to identify which benefit claims present a high fraud risk.

The methods used to identify cases reviewed by the Risk Review Team are sensitive and, as such, we are not able to provide the mechanics of how they are identified.

By putting such methods or the guidance in the public domain, we would risk undermining the ability of DWP to detect and counter fraudulent threats.