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Social Security Benefits: Fraud

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN HL3162, tabled on 25 November 2014

To ask Her Majesty’s Government in how many localities, and at what cost, they have contracted with bus companies or public transport bodies to display advertisements on buses calling on people who know "benefit cheats" to inform the Department for Work and Pensions.

Answered on

9 December 2014

Advertising on buses was targeted in 25 local authority areas at a cost of £219,786.