DWP set out its plan to tackle benefit fraud following the pandemic in May 2022 in Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System.57 This includes £895 million of additional investment in counter-fraud activities over the Spending Review period covering the three years to March 2025. Details of the plan now published by the NAO show that DWP expects this investment to generate savings of £9.4 billion by 2027–28 by reducing benefit fraud and error.58 We focused our questioning on two elements of DWP’s counter-fraud plan: • A project to review millions of Universal Credit claims; and • Using machine learning to detect fraudulent benefit claims. Reviewing millions of live Universal Credit claims