Fraud and error in housing benefit

Inquiry by the Public Accounts Committee, 8 October 2014 to 26 March 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 27th Report - Housing benefit fraud and error (13 January 2015)
• Housing benefit fraud and error: Government response to the Committee's Twenty-seventh Report of Session 2014-15 (27 March 2015)

Evidence sessions

• 29 October 2014: Ian Adams, Director of Financial Operations and Customer Services, Islington Council, Andrew Stevens, Assistant Director (Customer Delivery) East Kent Services, Robert Devereux, Permanent Secretary, Department of Work and Pensions, Steve Buckingham, Senior Responsible Officer for Housing Benefit Fraud and Error, Department for Work and Pensions, and Mike Driver, Director General (Finance), Department for Work and Pensions