National Audit Office

Tackling fraud and corruption against government

Most public bodies do not know how much fraud they face and cannot demonstrate that they have the correct level of counter fraud resources.

Published 30 Mar 2023 Value for Money Cabinet Office; Cross-government 1 recommendation

Topics: COVID-19, Fraud and error, Money and tax

Recommendations 1

Recommendation 1

Response: Accepted · Delivery: implemented, 01/2025 (confirmed by the NAO)

Addressed to Cabinet Office · Page 14, paragraph 30

Recommendation (the NAO's words)
We recommend that the PSFA draws up an implementation plan for how it will work across government to help address the nine insights we set out above and in Part Three of this report.

Public Accounts Committee follow-up 1 report

The Public Accounts Committee examined this NAO report and made its own recommendations. The government replies to those in Treasury Minutes.