questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve the effectiveness of fraud (a) prevention and (b) detection by public sector bodies.
answerText: We recognise the financial and emotional impacts that fraud, and wider economic crime, can have. The Home Office does not hold a specific figure on the annual cost of fraud to the economy, however, the estimated total cost of fraud to society was £6.8bn i...
heading: Fraud: Public Sector