Ninth Report - Fraud and Error

Select Committee
Public Accounts Committee HC 253 30 June 2021
Report Status Government responded
Conclusions & Recommendations 31 items (16 recs)
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Government Response (AI assessment · 31 of 31 classified)
Accepted 20
Accepted in Part 3
Acknowledged 1
Deferred 1
Not Addressed 4
Rejected 2
Government response
Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Ninth report from Session 2021-22 · published 28 Oct 2021
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Recommendations & Conclusions

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2 Recommendation Accepted in Part
Government’s focus on the long-standing fraud and error risks it understands, risks large amounts of...
Recommendation
Government’s focus on the long-standing fraud and error risks it understands, risks large amounts of fraud and error being unidentified or untackled elsewhere. Efforts to tackle fraud and error in the tax and benefits system come under regular scrutiny. While … Read more
Government Response Summary
The government agrees to identify and update fraud and error risks across government annually, setting an implementation date of February 2022. However, it rejects publishing individual fraud and error risks at a detailed level due to concerns about increasing overall fraud risk, instead committing to provide internal government access to the Global Fraud Risk Assessment and increase transparency on the use of Fraud Risk Assessments.
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10 Recommendation Accepted in Part
We asked Cabinet Office about fraud and error risks outside the tax and benefits system.
Recommendation
We asked Cabinet Office about fraud and error risks outside the tax and benefits system. Cabinet Office told us that the diversity of risks is “very, very large”, because government spends £850 billion and collects around £800 billion in income. … Read more
Government Response Summary
The government agrees to build on the Global Fraud Risk Assessment (GFRA) and update it annually, but will not publish fraud risks at the requested level of detail, instead providing internal government access.
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11 Recommendation Accepted in Part
The Counter Fraud Function undertook a Global Fraud Risk Assessment across 206 COVID-19 response schemes,...
Recommendation
The Counter Fraud Function undertook a Global Fraud Risk Assessment across 206 COVID-19 response schemes, with an estimated total value of £387 billion. It risk-assessed 16 of these schemes as having a high or very high fraud risk, representing 57% … Read more
Government Response Summary
The government agrees to build on and annually update the Global Fraud Risk Assessment (GFRA) with a target implementation date of February 2022, and will provide access to it across government, but rejects publishing fraud risks at a detailed level due to concerns about increasing overall risk.
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