NHS: Fraud
The question
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 by Karin Smyth
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.
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