Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 93195

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

Tabled: 20 November 2025

Answered: 4 December 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claims were terminated in the last 12 months as a result of fraud investigations; and what the estimated value of those claims was.

Answer

Andrew Western

Since Autumn Budget 2024, including the new announcements at Autumn Budget 2025, the Government have committed to gross savings of £14.6bn up to the end of 2030/31 from fraud, error and debt activity in the welfare state in Great Britain. Information on t...

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