FOI release

Fraud Investigations

Case reference FOI2022/00190

Published 15 March 2022

Request

Q1. Do you have a fraud investigation department/team?

Q2. If you don't have a fraud team, who investigates reported case of fraud?

Q3. How many fraud investigators are there in your team?

Q4. Can you please list the top 4 most common types of fraud you investigate?

Q5. Do you investigate any Covid related fraud cases - e.g. business grant, business support, business rates relief or business load fraud cases?

Q6. Do you release or publish any information about the number of cases you investigate per annum, the value of fraud and their outcomes?

Q7. How many fraud cases were investigated in 2020 and in 2021?

Q8. Do you use an electronic case management system to record and manage your fraud cases? If so, which case management system do you use?

Q9. Do you use data matching to proactively identify potential fraud cases? Which product or service do you use?

Q10. Do you investigate fraud on behalf of other organisations? Can you please state who?

Q1. Yes.

Q2. N/A

Q3. 1

Q4. Fraud types consistently vary across public sector services.

Q5. Yes.

Q6. Yes, an annual Counter Fraud Report is published to the Audit and Governance Committee, in January of each year

Q7. 18 alleged fraud cases over the time period stated.

Q8. No.

Q9. Yes - NFI (National Fraud Initiative)

Q10. Yes - Hoople Ltd.

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This is Herefordshire Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.