The Department told us it is “improving and consolidating [its] approach to the Confidential Hotline and the case management system”, as well as exploring the possibility of providing officials in Fraud Defence with access to the Ministry of Defence Police case management system.74 However, the Department cautioned that this is governed by whether access controls can be put in place on the protection of police information.75 The Department asks for Fraud Defence to be informed of updates on investigations, but the NAO report found inconsistencies between records of investigations held on the different systems.76 Separately, the Department also told us that it plans to strengthen assurance over fraud investigations outside its counter-fraud and police teams, including through increased sampling as part of its work “strengthening [its] systems of accountability” and alignment under its new strategy.77