In last 6 years how many people have been prosecuted for benefit fraud?

Paul Ingham made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Work and Pensions

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From: Paul Ingham

17 June 2008

Dear Sir or Madam,

Could you please tell me how many people in the last 6 years have
been prosecuted for benefit fraud. Please could you break this down
into what percentage received custodial sentences, what percentage
received suspended sentences, and what percentage got community
sentences. Also the numbers of prosicuted that did not get a
successful prosicution.

Could you also state what percentage of successful convictions of
the money de-frauded was actually repaid by the offenders and if
this actually was deducted from the benefits that they were
actually in receipt of?

Yours faithfully,

Paul Ingham

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