Andy Sawford – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Sawford on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the creation of a Single Fraud Investigation Service on the level of fraud against local authorities.

Esther McVey

The introduction of single fraud investigation service will ensure that all allegations of local authority welfare benefit fraud are investigated appropriately in accordance with a single policy. As such the SFIS project strengthens the approach to investigating and tackling welfare benefit fraud in local authorities.