To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if, pursuant to the answer given to the hon. Member for Newham, North-East on 20 June, Official Report, column 402, he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's research which provides the basis for the assumption that a person voluntarily withdrawing a claim to unemployment benefit following a fraud investigation refrains from claiming benefit for an average of 22 weeks.

The study which determined the basis for the calculation of benefit savings arising from anti-fraud activity was conducted by the Department's operational research services. A copy of its report, entitled "Evaluation of Specialist Claims Control and Comparison With Other Types of Anti-Fraud Work" was placed in the Library on 12 June 1985, together with a detailed statement of the conclusions reached on the recommendations made.