Fraud

Published by:
East Cambridgeshire District Council
Last updated:
11 April 2016
Topic:
Crime and justice
Licence:
Open Government Licence

Summary

Supporting Notes

  1. The Council has not used powers under the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud (Power to Require Information) (England) regulations 2014 or similar powers as the Council does not hold any housing stock.

  2. The Council is part of a Local Authority Revenues and Benefits Partnership consisting of four partners. There are a total of 8 employees across the Partnership undertaking investigations and prosecutions for fraud which equates to 1.5 fte for this Council.

  3. The Council is part of a Local Authority Revenues and Benefits Partnership consisting of four partners. There are a total of 7 employees across the Partnership who are professionally accredited counter fraud specialists which equates to 1.25 fte for this Council.

  4. The amount spent by the Council on the investigation and prosecution of fraud is included within the overall cost the Council pays to the Partnership.

  5. This represents the number of fraud cases referred for investigation not the number of investigations which resulted in a sanction being applied.

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Fraud 03 / 2016 / CSV 11 April 2016 Not available
Fraud 03 / 2015 / CSV 31 March 2015 Not available
Fraud 02 / 2015 / CSV 09 February 2015 Not available
Fraud 11 / 2014 / CSV 07 November 2014 Not available

Supporting documents

Link to the document Format Date added
Fraud Metadata PDF 07 November 2014

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