Tom Watson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Watson on 2014-07-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the value is of duplicate supplier payments identified by his Department since 2010; and what proportion of such payments have since been recovered in each of the last two financial years.

Mrs Helen Grant

The value of duplicate supplier payments detected by the Department in each financial year since 2010 was:

Financial Year £

2010-11 £38,815.22

2011-12 £17,976.00

2012-13 NIL

2013-14 £26,481.10

All of these duplicate payments were detected by the Departments own financial control processes and recovered in full in the same financial year at no cost to the Department.