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Education Scotland fraud losses for financial year 2022-2023: FOI release

Published: 16 August 2023
Topic: Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/202300367805
Date received: 20 July 2023
Date responded: 1 August 2023

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

Information requested

You asked for the following information on fraud losses:

In the financial year 2022-2023 how much has money been lost as a result of fraud?
In the financial year 2022-2023 how much has been spent to retrieve money lost to fraud?

Response

Education Scotland’s annual accounts for 2022-23 were laid in Parliament on 27 July 2023 and will shortly be published on our website here: Annual reports and accounts

Question 1
In financial year 2022-23, no money has been lost as a result of fraud.

Question 2
In financial year 2022-23, no money has been spent to retrieve money lost to fraud.

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Contact

Please quote the FOI reference
Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

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