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In last 6 years how many people have been prosecuted for benefit fraud?
A Freedom of Information request to Department for Work and Pensions by Paul Ingham
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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
DWP Adelphi Freedom-of-Information-Request
Department for Work and Pensions
17 June 2008
[Subject only] Thank you for your e-mail
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DWP Adelphi Freedom-of-Information-Request
Department for Work and Pensions
18 August 2008
Dear Mr Ingham
Please find attached response to your FoI request.
Please also accept our apologies for the delay in responding to you.
Kind regards
Central FoI Team
Department for Work & Pensions
Information and Devolution Policy - DP/FoI (part of Legal Group)
Freedom of Information Unit
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