Ministry of Defence: Allowances

(asked on 16th January 2024) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2023 to Question 6435 on Ministry of Defence: Allowances, how much his Department recovered from fraudulent claims in each financial year since 2019-20.


Answered by
Andrew Murrison Portrait
Andrew Murrison
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 24th January 2024

The total value of recoveries received from substantiated closed investigations relating to fraudulent expense claims in each financial year (FY) since 2019-20 is set out below:

FY

Total value

FY 2019-20

£32,674

FY 2020-21

£19,130

FY 2021-22

£1,528

FY 2022-23

£14,417

FY 2023-24

£7,155*

* Q1-Q3 for FY 2023-24 (31/12/2023)

Recovered monies can relate to investigations that pre-date 2019-20 due to the timeframe an investigation and recovery action can take. The recovery totals provided in the table will have been received in the timeframes stipulated.

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