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Originally Posted by arcamalpha2004
Roger, where did you get those figures?
£1.50 spent for every £1.00 we get back.
That seems alarming enough, until you also factor in the wages for the fraud staff, plus the expenses paid for accomodation claims and childcare for the staff, if these costs are met by the taxpayer.
If your calculations are correct and then factor in any expenses claimed then I would also just say prosecute when caught.
There was an interesting debate on the local radio about bus passes, they were on about means testing for them.
But in order for the means testing to be done requires staff, which drains more money from the system, so why bother means testing for them when in reality the money saved could well be less than the money spent.
Anyway, all this mullarky is a great distraction from the mp's expense fiasco.
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from their own figures i will dig out the web site again later i did post them in a similar thread before
the only people benefiting from the fraud department are those working for it
here is one item about it
http://www.nao.org.uk/news/0708/0708102.aspx