NAO SAYS UK DATA MAY UNDERESTIMATE FRAUD IN GOVERNMENT
February 1st, 2016
THE UK’s National Audit Office (NAO) has called on the British government to toughen action against fraud within its ministries and agencies, being concerned that the UK is underreporting public sector fraud.
While issuing the usual health warning about the difficulty of measuring crimes based on deception, the NAO said, excluding tax credit and benefit fraud, detected fraud in 2014-15 across the UK government affected only 0.02% or GBP72.9 million (USD101 million) of total expenditure -GBP306 billion (USD426 billion). This is far lower than some estimates of ...
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