Holyrood committee to examine how well Scotland tackles public sector fraud
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How effectively public sector fraud and error is tackled in Scotland will be examined by the Scottish Parliament’s Public Audit and Post Legislative Scrutiny Committee as it undertakes its first ever piece of post-legislative scrutiny.
The committee will focus on the sections of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 relating to the National Fraud Initiative (NFI) and will explore how the NFI has operated to date.
Since its introduction, the NFI has generated an estimated £110 million of outcomes for the public purse.
Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee Convener, Jenny Marra MSP, said: “In this time of financial pressure, it is common sense for public bodies to share data to help deter and eliminate fraud, waste and corruption. It is therefore encouraging that the National Fraud Initiative seems to have been a real success story, delivering considerable benefits to the public purse in the last decade.
“I’m sure every taxpayer would want the NFI to work as effectively as possible and we will therefore examine whether there is scope for even better results.
“We will use our new powers to ask whether it should be compulsory for some or all public bodies to take part in the NFI and whether the legislation could be strengthened in any other way.”
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