Using data analytics to tackle fraud and error could save government billions
Published on:Data analytics are a vital tool to tackle fraud and error, but savings so far have been modest compared to the amount potentially achievable.
Data analytics are a vital tool to tackle fraud and error, but savings so far have been modest compared to the amount potentially achievable.
This report examines how well placed government is to seize the opportunity offered by data analytics technologies to tackle fraud and error.
Fraud and error in benefit expenditure is one of DWP’s most significant risks, with overpayments totalling £9.7 billion in 2023-24.
We estimate that fraud and error cost the taxpayer between £55 billion to £81 billion in 2023-24. Only a fraction of this is detected and known about. To tackle this, public bodies need to know how much fraud and error they face and where it is. Our good practice guide on estimating and reporting fraud […]
We estimate that fraud & error cost the taxpayer £55-81 billion in 2023-24. This report introduces impact of fraud & error on public funds.
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This guide uses the NAO’s insights to show what can be done to counter the risk of fraud and error.
The government continues to lose large amounts of money through fraud and error overpayments and many vulnerable people get less support than they are entitled to.
The Department for Work & Pensions should have increased its focus on Housing Benefit fraud and error sooner, and is now facing an escalating problem.
The UK has levels of social security fraud and error which are similar to those in comparable countries, but the Department for Work and Pensions has a better understanding than other nations of the problems and is doing more to tackle them. A report by the National Audit Office, based on research carried out by […]
HMRC has improved its approach to tackling error and fraud in tax credits but still lost £2.3 billion in 2010-11.
Gareth Davies, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has reported on the 2024-25 accounts of the Department for Business and Trade.
Gareth Davies, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has reported on the 2024-25 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
An increasingly complex tax system is burdening government and business with billions in admin costs and rising.
Gareth Davies, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of the National Audit Office, has reported on HMRC’s 2023-24 accounts.
Gareth Davies, head of the National Audit Office, has reported on the 2023-24 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) and Environmental Information Regulation (EIR) requests made to the NAO in 2024.
Gareth Davies, the head of the NAO, has reported on the DWP’s 2022-23 accounts and has qualified his audit opinion.
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Most public bodies do not know how much fraud they face and cannot demonstrate that they have the correct level of counter fraud resources, according to the National Audit Office.