Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 93194
Social Security Benefits: Fraud and Maladministration
Tabled: 20 November 2025
Answered: 1 December 2025
Question
Rupert Lowe
Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of benefit expenditure was lost to (a) claimant fraud, (b) official error and (c) customer error in each of the last five years.
Answer
Andrew WesternSince 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 Great Britain. Estimates of the levels of fraud and ...
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