Bristol City Council Fraud

Published by:
Bristol City Council
Last updated:
30 June 2021
Topic:
Government
Licence:
Open Government Licence

Summary

Notes to Fraud Data 2018/19

  1. The information provided relates to fraud against the authority, it does not include cases of fraudulent activity by traders, as investigated by Trading Standards.
  2. The fraud value figure includes notional values for fraud used by the Cabinet Office for the National Fraud Initiative in the areas of Tenancy, Care Home, Concessionary fare and immigration fraud. ‘Right to Buy’ fraud has been valued as the discount that would have been given to the buyer.
  3. The total number and value of fraud includes the following which could be either fraud or irregularity: • Incorrect claiming of Council Tax - single persons discount
  4. Responsibility for benefit fraud investigation has transferred to the Department of Work and Pensions as of 1st April 2015. Although the authority has seen a number of benefit fraud prosecution cases through to a conclusion, and works with the DWP on benefit fraud. These have not been included in the transparency data.
  5. The ‘fraud recovered figure is ‘recoverable savings’ as opposed to ‘recovered’ as we do not currently record the amount recovered.

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Bristol City Council Fraud for the 2020 to 2021 CSV 30 June 2021 Preview
Bristol City Council Fraud for the 2019 to 2020 CSV 07 October 2020 Preview
Bristol City Council Fraud for the 2018 to 2019 CSV 08 July 2019 Preview
Bristol City Council Fraud for the 2017 to 2018 CSV 05 July 2018 Preview
Bristol City Council Fraud for the previous 5 years CSV 02 September 2015 Preview

Supporting documents

Link to the document Format Date added
Fighting fraud HTML 29 January 2015

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