To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the correlation is between the amount HM Revenue and Customs has spent and recouped on tackling fraudulent (a) tax credit and (b) benefit claims.
Answered on
24 February 2017
The requested information is not available. [HM Revenue and Customs’ data covers all error and fraud activity. It cannot be broken down to subsequently show those cases which were found to contain error and those containing fraud.]
Answered by
Treasury