Benefit fraud figures

Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

I'd like to know the figures for the most recent three years in the
following situations:

-how many people, as an absolute and a percentage of total claims
for the benefit, have been proven to be making fraudulent claims
for Jobseeker's Allowance?

-how many people, as an absolute and a percentage of total claims
for the benefit, have been proven to be making fraudulent claims
for Employment and Support Allowance, and how many were in the
assessment phase, how many in the Work Related Activity Group, and
how many in the Support Group?

-how many people, as an absolute and a percentage of total claims
for the benefit, have been proven to be making fraudulent claims
for Disability Living Allowance, and how many were receiving Low
Rate Care, how many were receiving Middle Rate Care, how many were
receiving High Rate Care, how many were receiving Low Rate
Mobility, and how many were receiving High Rate Mobility?

-how many people, as an absolute and a percentage of total claims
for the benefit, have been proven to be making fraudulent claims
for Incapacity Benefit?

-how many people, as an absolute and a percentage of total claims
for the benefit, have been proven to be making fraudulent claims
for Housing Benefit, and how many of the fraudulent claimants, as
an absolute and a percentage of the total fraudulent claims for the
benefit, had declared a disability?

-how many people, as an absolute and a percentage of total claims
for the benefit, have been proven to be making fraudulent claims
for state pension?

-how many people, as an absolute and a percentage of total claims
for the benefit, have been proven to be making fraudulent claims
for Pension Credit?

-how many people, as an absolute and a percentage of total claims
for the benefit, have been proven to be making fraudulent claims
for Child Benefit?

-of the total claims for benefit, how many, as an absolute and a
percentage of total claims for all benefits, were made by people
who have declared a disability?

-how many fraud reports were received, and how many, as an absolute
and a percentage, were against people who have declared a
disability?

-how many fraud reports were proven as fraud, and of those, how
many, as an absolute and a percentage, were against people who have
declared a disability?

Yours faithfully,

Ms. J. O'Connor

Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work
and Pensions' handling of my FOI request 'Benefit fraud figures'.

You say it will cost more than £600 for 3.5 working days spent to
find the figures. Based on an eight hour day, you would be paying
more than £21.42 per hour, or £62,571 per annum and I suspect that
these figures must be in error. At least, in these times of
spending cuts and amidst assurances that we're all in this
together, I hope those figures are not correct.

Also, you cite the difficulty of getting data from different
Jobcentre Plus organisations. If you remain convinced that finding
this data would cost more than £600, you could have indicated the
organisations in question so I could direct individual FOI requests
to get the figures I require.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/be...

Yours faithfully,

Ms. J. O'Connor