Information regarding DWP-administered benefits is not available below national and regional level.
The available information regarding the local authority administered benefits, housing benefit and council tax benefit, is in the following tables.
Local authority 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Barking 0 1 15 11 9 Barnet 14 30 26 27 21 Bexley 24 31 23 31 26 Brent 10 15 36 54 30 Bromley 4 18 30 35 34 Camden 1 9 5 22 2 City of London 1 0 0 0 0 Croydon 8 39 20 17 33 Ealing 27 41 34 41 15 Enfield 0 9 62 75 30 Greenwich 17 31 48 68 39 Hackney 5 0 35 14 20 Hammersmith and Fulham 13 40 39 50 33 Haringey 12 11 38 19 4 Harrow 2 3 16 20 32 Havering 6 13 14 18 23 Hillingdon 15 34 13 9 15 Hounslow 13 13 10 18 21 Islington 15 14 18 19 n/a Kensington and Chelsea 0 15 12 36 n/a Kingston upon Thames 0 6 5 9 2 Lambeth 0 47 22 49 61 Lewisham 17 29 42 79 n/a Merton 0 2 3 5 7 Newham 19 56 32 12 10 Redbridge 62 32 35 52 15 Richmond upon Thames 4 4 1 3 13 Southwark 17 38 31 39 50 Sutton 20 13 14 16 8 Tower Hamlets 2 2 5 14 34 Waltham Forest 7 17 29 45 16 Wandsworth 18 15 13 19 12 Westminster 17 24 23 18 n/a
Local authority 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Barking 0 1 7 3 12 Barnet 11 18 18 27 26 Bexley 22 19 15 26 22 Brent 9 14 13 43 26 Bromley 3 10 14 21 32 Camden 2 9 4 15 7 City of London 1 0 0 0 0 Croydon 7 17 16 13 19 Ealing 18 36 25 30 37 Enfield 0 6 54 55 40 Greenwich 23 27 45 59 36 Hackney 3 0 12 6 37 Hammersmith and Fulham 20 21 37 32 46 Haringey 10 11 24 25 10 Harrow 1 0 7 15 26 Havering 1 10 15 10 20 Hillingdon 15 34 13 9 15 Hounslow 9 11 9 6 15 Islington 14 11 6 17 n/a Kensington and Chelsea 0 8 7 23 25 Kingston upon Thames 0 3 6 5 3 Lambeth 0 13 31 39 28 Lewisham 16 18 35 46 n/a Merton 0 2 3 3 9 Newham 11 37 29 23 n/a Redbridge 38 35 26 35 26 Richmond upon Thames 2 1 2 3 13 Southwark 8 22 28 30 49 Sutton 15 10 12 10 11 Tower Hamlets 1 1 2 13 26 Waltham Forest 4 12 24 30 17 Wandsworth 17 14 11 10 17 Westminster 13 14 15 14 n/a n/a = data not available Note: Data on costs in pursuing these prosecutions is not available. Source: Estimates are based on Stats 124 administrative data returns.
The available information is in the following table.
£ 2002-03 876,000 2003-04 935,000 2004-05 1,136,000 2005-06 1,213,000 2006-07 1,350,000 Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000. 2. The costs above are for the national benefit fraud hotline (NBFHL) and related services. These are in nominal terms. 3. The costs for 2005-06 and 2006-07 are the same as the costs used in a recent NAO report on the benefit fraud hotline. 4. At the start of 2005-06, Jobcentre Plus implemented a new accounting system for recording any costs from 2005-06 onwards. The costs for 2004-05 and prior years have therefore been extracted using archived data sources from a closed accounting system. 5. The costs above include staff and non staff costs. Non staff costs primarily include telephony related costs. 6. The national benefit fraud hotline was transferred to the contact centre directorate in 2005-06. The reported costs will therefore include the effect of any re-organisation to NBFHL over the last five reported years. Source: National benefit fraud hotline.