To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how he intends to reorganise fraud resources within his Department into sector teams; and when such reorganisation will be complete.

We intend, wherever possible, to align the new fraud sectors with our local office network for benefit payment. Existing fraud resources will be merged to form approximately 170 sector teams, grouped with some 20 areas for line management purposes. We plan to have this new organisation in place by the end of the year.