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Benefit Fraud

Volume 400: debated on Monday 24 February 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent assessment he has made of benefit fraud in the East Riding of Yorkshire. [96711]

Our most recent estimate is that £2 billion is lost annually through benefit fraud in Great Britain. This estimate cannot be broken down for individual areas.