Details of request 'Audit Commission Campaign to obtain copies of full electoral register in order to label large numbers of electors receiving a single person discount as 'high risk fraud cases' on the spurious grounds that by matching it with council tax data sets it can tell when people are not entitled to a Section 11 discount of 25% or that at some point months or years before the electoral register in question was compiled electors had made false claims about who lived at their address'

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