To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total value was of fraud detected across NHS procurement systems in each year since 2020.
Answered on
4 July 2025
The following table shows the value of the procurement fraud detected in the National Health Service in England for each of the last five years:
Year | Procurement fraud detected |
2020/21 | £9,100,000 |
2021/22 | £9,300,000 |
2022/23 | £3,200,000 |
2023/24 | £5,800,000 |
2024/25 | £3,000,000 |
Source: the data is derived from the NHS related Consolidated Data Return. Notes:
- the table details the financial value of fraud detected in each financial year where the fraud area matches Cabinet Office fraud taxonomy where procurement is referenced; and
- figures shown in this table are gross losses that do not include monies subsequently recovered as a result of loss recovery activity.
Answered by
Department of Health and Social Care