To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2023 to Question 6435 on Ministry of Defence: Allowances, how much his Department recovered from fraudulent claims in each financial year since 2019-20.
Answered on
24 January 2024
The total value of recoveries received from substantiated closed investigations relating to fraudulent expense claims in each financial year (FY) since 2019-20 is set out below:
FY | Total value |
FY 2019-20 | £32,674 |
FY 2020-21 | £19,130 |
FY 2021-22 | £1,528 |
FY 2022-23 | £14,417 |
FY 2023-24 | £7,155* |
* Q1-Q3 for FY 2023-24 (31/12/2023)
Recovered monies can relate to investigations that pre-date 2019-20 due to the timeframe an investigation and recovery action can take. The recovery totals provided in the table will have been received in the timeframes stipulated.