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Education and Skills Funding Agency |
| Question ID: |
1805257 |
| UIN: |
HL7747 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4567 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Finn
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Baroness Finn
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Education and Skills Funding Agency Annual report and accounts 2023–24, published on 29 July 2024 (HC13), what estimate they have made of the overall fraud and error rate, including undetected losses, across |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-13 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
269 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answer text: |
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) has not completed a formal estimate of fraud and error rates across its distributed funding.In 2025, the ESFA delivered year 2 of its Counter Fraud Strategy. Part of this strategy is built on the ‘Prevent’ an... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |