Fraud cost UK Â£13bn or more in 2005
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Identity fraud a hash About Â£13bn of fraud was committed in the UK in 2005, but the figure could be on the conservative side, a report commissioned by the Association of Chief Police Officers said today.â¦
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Credit and debit card fraud rose by nearly a fifth to Â£478.8m in the year up to July, an industry body says.
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An MEP for South East England convicted of 21 charges of benefit fraud is being sentenced later.
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Ministers spend nearly Â£2bn a year on external consultants, often without value for money, MPs say.
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Tens of millions of pounds have been overpaid through benefit errors or fraud, according to a new report.
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Donations to political parties in the final quarter of 2007 increased by nearly Â£5m compared with the previous three months, the Electoral Commission revealed today
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THE parliamentary portfolio Committee on Education, Sport and Culture yesterday said the $5,5 trillion allocated to the ministry for the 2005 financial year falls way below the $13 trillion the ministry had asked for, the chairman of the committee Mr
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The British government spent 1.75 billion pounds (3.20 billion dollars, 2.52 billion euros) last year to hire outside consultants, some of who were paid roughly 10 times that of a civil servant doing same job, a report said.
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Britain's public finances showed a deficit of 22.1 billion pounds in January, marking the highest ever level for the month, official data showed on Wednesday.
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Identify fraud has risen by 400 percent in the last 5 years but the majority of Britons would not know who to contact.
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Fraud is costing the UK at least Â£20bn a year, or Â£330 for each person in the UK, a police study warns.
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A UK insurance firm that recognized an unfolding fraud pattern but did next to nothing to protect its customers has been socked with a record fine by the British Financial Services Authority.
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The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that it has "brought forward" to this year $5.3 million of its 2005 pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to help ensure that the United ...
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Phew! What a stink The British government has admitted to Parliament that its IT projects have over-run by more than Â£260m in the last five years.â¦
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Individual bankruptcies in England and Wales have risen to their highest level on record, official figures show.
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BRITONS are being tricked out of 1 billion a year by con artists using low-cost marketing scams, the Office of Fair Trading warned yesterday.
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The airports operator BAA has said that increased security measures after an alleged terror plot last month had cost it 13.0 million pounds.