Baroness King of Bow – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness King of Bow on 2014-03-31.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Stowell of Beeston 21 October 2013 (WA 120–1), what estimate they have made of (1) fraud, (2) claimant error, and (3) departmental error, in the payment of Council Tax Benefit in 2012–13.
Lord Freud
The information requested can be found in the latest national statistics on Fraud and Error in the Benefit System: 2012 to 2013 Estimates. This report was published on 16 January 2014. The link to the report can be found here:“
