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873W
Written Answers
1 DECEMBER 2010
Written Answers
874W
Maria Miller: Statutory adoption pay enables adopters
to take a period of leave from work when a new child
joins the family. It is paid by employers to employees
who satisfy qualifying conditions based on length of
employment and a minimum level of earnings. Casual
employees may receive statutory adoption pay if they
can satisfy the qualifying conditions.
Income support is available in certain circumstances.
Single people who have a child placed with them prior
to an adoption have access to income support. Once the
adoption has taken place an adoptive parent can continue
to receive income support if they fall within another
prescribed group, for example if they are a lone parent
or a carer. A parent may also be entitled to income
support if they are taking leave from their employment
under the parental leave provisions.
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Work
and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 10 November
2010, Official Report, column 350W, on social security
benefits: fraud, what the (a) monetary value was of the
suspected fraud in the 550 warrant cases, (b) average
monetary value per case was of suspected fraud and
(c) monetary value was of the suspected fraud in each
of the 10 cases where that value is highest; and what the
dates of issue were of the 10 longest standing arrest
warrants. [24549]
Chris Grayling: Of the 550 warrants held by the
Department on 14 October 2010, information was held
centrally on 188 cases. This number has now been
reduced to 156 following the execution of 32 warrants.
Information on the remaining 362 warrants not held
centrally can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
(a) The total monetary value of fraud in the 156 cases is
£1,273,314.26.
(b) The average monetary value of fraud in the 156 cases is
£8,162.27
(c) The monetary value in each of the 10 cases where that
value is highest is shown in the following table.
10 highest value warrant cases
£
1. 58,550.01
2. 55,494.13
3. 54,864.22
4. 53,319.36
5. 46,406.20
6. 39,906.59
7. 37,465.39
8. 33,735.64
9. 32,121.02
10. 28,253.76
Total 440,116.32
Source:
FRAIMS
Information on the dates of issue of the 10 longest
standing arrest warrants is not available centrally and
can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Work
and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 10 November
2010, Official Report, column 350W, on social security
benefits: fraud, what benefits were involved in the
suspected frauds; how many cases involved each type
of benefit; and how many cases involved suspected acts
of fraud relating to more than one type of benefit.
[24550]
Chris Grayling: Information on the following is held
but would incur disproportionate cost to collate:
(a) what benefits were involved in the suspected frauds,
(b) how many cases involved each type of benefit, and
(c) how many cases involved suspected acts of fraud relating to
more than one type of benefit..
Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Work
and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 10 November
2010, Official Report, column 350W, on social security
benefits: fraud, how many of the defendants have
convictions or police cautions for other offences.
[24551]
Chris Grayling: The information on how many of the
defendants have convictions or police cautions for other
offences is held but can be provided only at disproportionate
cost.
Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Work
and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 10 November
2010, Official Report, column 350W, on social security
benefits: fraud, what were the (a) names of the persons
issued with arrest warrants, (b) their last known
addresses or whereabouts and (c) the monetary value
of the suspected fraud in each case. [24719]
Chris Grayling: The Data Protection Act 1998 and
Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights
provide no legal gateway to release information containing:
(a) names of the persons issued with arrest warrants
(b) their last known addresses or whereabouts.
Of the 550 warrants held by the Department on
14 October 2010, information is held centrally on 188
cases. Information on the remaining 362 cases is not
held centrally, warrants having been issued prior to roll
out of an IT case management system in November
2009.
The monetary value of the 362 cases is held but can
be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Of the 188 arrest warrants mentioned above, 32 have
been executed since 14 October 2010, reducing the
number to156, on which information is held centrally.
(c)The monetary value of the 156 cases can be found
in the following table.
Number and monetary value of 156 warrant cases
Number Amount of overpaid benefit (£)
1-13 0
14 77.95
15 259.28
16 328.29
17 409.50
18 429.66
19 517.07
20 587.88
21 776.81
22 841.44
23 854.62
24 862.30