The Department told us that it plans to strengthen its leadership and oversight of the fraud function through the role of Director General Finance, who has responsibility for fraud on the Department’s Executive Committee.28 As part of this the Department committed to improving its risk registers and that the Director General Finance will use them in a more focused way to hold the organisation to account for its activities.29 It also told us that leadership on tackling fraud requires the Permanent Secretary to be saying in public that “this matters. This is something that all leaders in my Department should be taking seriously”.30 20 Q 29 21 Q 23 22 Q 24 23 Q 17 24 Qq 14 and 55 25 Q 19; C&AG’s Report, para 11 26 Qq 2, 8 and 19 27 Qq 19 and 22 28 Qq 10 and 22 29 Qq 10 and 22 30 Q 22 11 2 Understanding fraud risk and deterrence The scale of potential fraud losses