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John Barrett
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Croydon, South (Richard Ottaway) of 9 June 2000, Official Report, columns 702–3W, on housing benefit fraud, if he will list the local authorities in Scotland which have signed up for the Verification Framework. [119730]
Malcolm Wicks
The following 25 local authorities in Scotland, out of a total of 32, have signed up for the Verification Framework and are compliant in one or more of the three modules:
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Argyll and Bute
- Clackmannanshire
- Dumfries and Galloway
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Lothian
- East Renfrewshire
- Falkirk
- Fife
- Highland
- Inverclyde
- Midlothian
- Moray
- North Lanarkshire
- Orkney
- Perthshire and Kinross
- Scottish Borders
- Shetland
- South Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
- Stirling
- West Dunbartonshire
- West Lothian
- Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles)