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Social Security Benefits: Fraud

Asked by Helen WhatelyConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 23 April 2025UIN 44241

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department’s investigators can apply to police to have individuals suspected of committing fraud against the Department arrested.

Answered by Andrew Western

Where appropriate, DWP can apply to the Police to undertake an arrest as part of a criminal investigation into suspected fraud.

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