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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

The BBC "Crimestoppers" programme recently ran a TV campaign in association with and sanctioned and funded by DWP to highlight and publicise frauds against DWP.

Can you provide an "anominised" list of all instances reported by members of the public during/after this campaign and the outcome of any/all investigations identified by the programme?

I am sure that the BBC have supplied you with this information, and you would have acted upon it and used the results to broadcast how much money was saved/recovered as a result, otherwise the campaign would have been an expensive failure

By "anominised", I mean for you to leave out personal/identifiable detail of persons names etc so that you do not refuse this request on the grounds of releasing personal information.

Yours faithfully,

J Colton - Bristol

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Dear DWP freedom-of-information-requests,

You have not replied to my FOI request "Crimestoppers/DWP Fraud Campaign" promptly by by 3 August 2012, as normally required by law.

I am sending this message to remind the Department for Work and Pensions to reply to my request promptly.

Yours sincerely,

J Colton

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Dear J Colton

Please see attached response to your FoI request.

Kind regards

DWP Central FoI Team

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Dear DWP freedom-of-information-requests,

I apologise for mistaking the name of the "three month
trial with Crimestoppers" being as it was a BBC programme, I'm glad that I described/guessed it accurately enough for you to assist.

I fail to see how providing an anonimised list of 4,152 instances of fraud that were reported by members of the public, and how you accurately managed to define that 2,261 fraud referrals were routed to FIS for criminal investigation, and 1,819 referrals were routed to DWP’s Customer Compliance (CC).

Or that 1,162 have resulted in no evidence of fraud being found costing more than the allowed £600, without you having available the full list of reports/title descriptions available to hand. I'm sure you didn't just GUESS these figures?

So, can you please supply such a list with any names/addresses anonimised, grouped by referral to FIS, CC or NO EVIDENCE . THANK YOU !!

I accept that between now and you the next 4 weeks, the grouped numbers might change and your invesrigations proceed, e.g. FIS finds no evidence or CC decides not to proceed, but I am looking for 4,152 report titles, and, if available within the £600 limit, investigation findings and action taken as well

Yours sincerely,

J COLTON

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Dear J Colton

Please see attached response to your FoI request.

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DWP Central FoI Team

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Dear DWP freedom-of-information-requests,

I am sorry, but I DO NOT accept your response as reasonable. You have not given any excuse in your review/reply as to why you cannot supply the requested information. Your last comment of "would not be reasonable to do in over 4,000 cases" is NOT covered in the FoI regulations.

In a previous FoI request 01-Jan-2012 "Links between Crimestoppers and DWP or Job Centre Plus Communications and Press teams"

Link : "http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/li... , BBC / CrimeStoppers / 555111 contracted to supply DWP with regular lists of suspected benefit fraud reported by the public!!

SO I KNOW THE LISTS EXTST - WITHOUT YOU HAVING TO SCOUR EVERY SINGLE RECORD MANUALLY. You even know how many fell into each category!!

So, as per my previous request, please supply a copy of the list with names/addresses redacted/anonimised. I am willing for you NOT to group them individually if this is too tedious, time consuming, expensive for you

Yours sincerely,

J Colton

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Dear J Colton

Please see attached response to your FoI request.

Kind regards

DWP Central FoI Team

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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's handling of my FOI request 'Crimestoppers/DWP Fraud Campaign'.

1: You have stated that there are over 4,000 cases reported by the public through the Crimestoppers trial period, and that these are too much to trawl through. However in another FoI requrest http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cu..., your reply is that there are 960 reports received via the Crimestoppers trial on your FRAIMS system.

ARE YOU TRYING TO AVOID RESPONDNG TO MY REQUEST?

ARE YOU TRING TO AVOIDE DISCLOSING INFORMATION EMBARRASING TO DWP?. (E.G. DWP employee charging £16,000 to alter claimants online records)

WHICH FIGURE IS HONEST and ACCURATE 960 or 4,152?

WHAT CAN I NOW BELIEVE ANYTHING FROM DWP?

Before I contact the Information Commissioners' Office, I include a reminder from them so that you may wish to rethink your previous replies and respond with the requested information.

"The Information Commissioner also reminds Public Authorities, that deleting or concealing information with the intention of preventing its disclosure following receipt of a request is a criminal offence
under section 77 of the Act."

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

Yours faithfully,

J Colton

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Dear DWP

this is my FIRST REQUEST today 31/08/2012 for an Internal Review to this FoI request. Please DO NOT try to hide behind your previous poor replies that were NOT in response to Internal Review requests!!

regards
JColton

Dear DWP freedom-of-information-requests,

this is my FIRST REQUEST today 31/08/2012 for an Internal Review to this FoI request. Please DO NOT try to hide behind your previous poor replies that were NOT in response to Internal Review requests!!

regards
JColton

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Our Ref: FOI 539

Dear J Colton,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) review request, which we received on 03 September 2012.

I am of a senior grade to the person who dealt with your request previously, and can confirm that I have carried out an internal review.

You asked:-

I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pension's handling of my FOI request 'Crimestoppers/DWP Fraud Campaign'.
1: You have stated that there are over 4,000 cases reported by the public through the Crimestoppers trial period, and that these are too much to trawl through. However in another FoI requrest http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cu..., your reply is that there are 960 reports received via the Crimestoppers trial on your FRAIMS system.
ARE YOU TRYING TO AVOID RESPONDNG TO MY REQUEST?
ARE YOU TRING TO AVOIDE DISCLOSING INFORMATION EMBARRASING TO DWP?
(E.G. DWP employee charging £16,000 to alter claimants online
records)
WHICH FIGURE IS HONEST and ACCURATE 960 or 4,152?
WHAT CAN I NOW BELIEVE ANYTHING FROM DWP?

Before I contact the Information Commissioners' Office, I include a
reminder from them so that you may wish to rethink your previous
replies and respond with the requested information.

"The Information Commissioner also reminds Public Authorities, that
deleting or concealing information with the intention of preventing
its disclosure following receipt of a request is a criminal offence
under section 77 of the Act."


I am content that your original request was dealt with in accordance with DWP guidelines for FoI requests. The figure of 960 that you have quoted represents the number of cases received by Customer Compliance between 01 December 2011 and 31 May 2012. The figure of 4152 represents the instances of fraud reported by members of the public and sent to the DWP Fraud Investigation Service for consideration of an investigation during the 3 month trial between the DWP and Crimestoppers (05 December 2011 to 04 March 2012). The two sets of figures relate to two different time frames.

Please note that instance of fraud reported to DWP is known as a referral, and a case is created where the business rules identify that action is appropriate

I hope this is helpful but if you are still not content with the outcome of the internal review you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner's Office for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF www.ico.gov.uk

If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number above.

Yours sincerely,

DWP Central FoI Team

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Your right to complain under the Freedom of Information Act

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner's Office for a decision. Generally the Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted our own complaints procedure. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF www.ico.gov.uk

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Dear DWP freedom-of-information-requests,

so now that we have agreed that there were only 960 and NOT 4000+, it should not be a problem for you to send the 960 reported headline details received from Cromestoppers, of course with any meaningful client/suspect names anonimised (e.g John Colton =>Jjjj Cccccc.

I look forward to receiving your listing forthwith as you have delayed my request too long

Yours sincerely,

JColton

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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's handling of my FOI request 'Crimestoppers/DWP Fraud Campaign'.

My last request 28th Sept 2012 was asking for the the reduced list (960 anonimised records) of calls received via the Crimestoppers system.

It has now been over 1 month since this request was made, you are in default of the allowed timescale.

Please resolve this ASAP!!

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

Yours faithfully,

JColton

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Dear J Colton

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Kind regards

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