Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 7
75th Report - Government use of data analytics on error and fraud
Published 27 Mar 2026
Addressed to HM Treasury
Public Accounts Committee Government use of data analytics on error and fraud All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
The PSFA told us that it now agrees annual targets for all government departments to reduce fraud error.12 Its latest figures from 2023–24 suggest that working towards these targets is having a tangible impact in preventing and recovering fraud losses.13 Although DWP makes its own fraud reduction targets public, the bulk of departments agree targets internally with the PSFA and do not publish them.14 The PSFA also told us that these targets are set one year at a time – it does not have a longer-term target that it is aiming towards. Instead, it looks for departments to increase their impact in reducing fraud and error each year.15 Government plans to achieve savings
From: Public Accounts Committee, 75th Report - Government use of data analytics on error and fraud (HC 891), 27 March 2026
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 1 June 2026 (deadline 27 May 2026).