Recommendation 5

We recommend that the Government considers whether the governance of the Economic Crime Plan has been effective and also whether having such a wide range of departments with responsibilities in this field is the best way to tackle a problem like economic crime. The Government should consider whether policy responsibility should be centralised in a single Government department. The Government should move to a strategy for combatting fraud which focuses on outcomes, not processes. Its explicit target should be to reduce substantially the level of fraud.