15. “ In your opinion , how much fraud against your charity could be undetected ? Please provide your estimate as a percentage of your charities’ annual income…” 767 respondents Estimate of fraud against the Charity Sector
17. How does this compare to other estimates? Telecommunications sector 2.4% (£730 million) of turnover (£30 billion) General insurance sector 6.2% (£2.1 billion) of annual total net premiums in the general insurance market (£34 billion) TV licence fee evasion 5.2% (£196 million) with £3.6 billion collected Tax 3.0% (£15 billion) of total net tax liabilities Tax credits 2.1% (£460 million) of tax credits expenditure Benefits 0.7% (£1 billion) of benefit expenditure (£148 billion) Mortgage fraud 0.7% (£1 billion) of the gross mortgage market (£144 billion lent in 2009) NHS Bursaries 2.7% (£12.4 million) of expenditure (£460 million) Top down estimates of undetected fraud
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21. For further information: Catherine Hayes Head of Measurement and Analysis Unit The National Fraud Authority tel: 020 3356 1051 email: [email_address] website: http://www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk/nfa www.actionfraud.org.uk
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Public sector = 3.5 x the £6 billion spending cuts proposed by the Conservative Government Housing Benefit budget Private sector = 500,000 average paid FTE jobs Individuals = 2 weeks food shopping for every family in the UK Charity Sector = Every penny income raised last year by: Comic Relief £74,360,207 Children in Need £39,000,000 Cancer Research £500,000,000 MacMillan £119,000,000 Oxfam £318,000,000 NSPCC £152,210,000 Christian Aid £104,621,000 Total £1,307,191,207
No Less than £10,000 – 91% £10,001 to £100,000 – 88% £100,001 to £500,000 – 77.7 % £500,001 to £5,000,000 – 72.9 % £5,000,000 plus – 70.7%
Basic / without outliers £0 to 10,000 – 4.4% / 2.6% £10,001 to £100,000 – 4.0% / 2.8% £100,001 to £500,000 – 3.0% £500,001 to £5,000,000 – 4.0% / 1.6% £5,000,000 plus – 1.7%