Fraud employees

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Dear Horsham District Council,

Could you please disclose how many council employees have been suspended over allegations of fraud? How many of those were suspended on full pay?
If you are able to, please provide some detail on the type of fraud commited

Please provide an annual break down from 2017-2021

Yours faithfully,

Gurpreet Kaur

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Dear Mr Kaur

 

Gurpreet

 

I am emailing in response to your recent FOI query about how many council
employees have been suspended over allegations of fraud, details on the
type of fraud committed and how many of those were suspended on full pay,
for the period dating from 2017-2021.

 

During this period, none of the council’s employees were suspended over
allegations of fraud.

Yours sincerely

 

With best wishes

 

Robert​   Laban
Head Of HR & OD
Telephone:  [1]441403215406
Email: [2][email address]
 
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