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Since 1996, the National Fraud Initiative has offered data screening services to public sector bodies. We have over ten years of experience at data matching, and in that time have identified outcomes of £939 million.

The use of data for NFI purposes continues to be controlled to ensure compliance with data protection and human rights legislation. A revised code of data matching practice was published and laid before Parliament on 21 July 2008 and replaces the previous Code published by the Commission in 2006.

 
 
Data requirements
30 March 2012
Find out what the data requirements for each sector are: Local government; NHS; Pension schemes; Central government departments and agencies and other bodies.
Data specifications
30 March 2012
Access the data specifications for the 2012/13 NFI exercise, including a summary of changes made to the specifications since NFI 2010/11.
National Fraud Initiative timetable
Timetables
30 March 2012
What are the key dates for NFI?
Fees
10 February 2012
The Commission consulted its audited bodies who participate in the NFI on the 2012/13 proposed scales of fees between 10 February and 23 March 2012. The final work programme, scale of fees and a ...
Case studies
16 May 2012
In 2010/11 the National Fraud Initiative (NFI) helped trace £215 million in fraud, error and overpayments in 2008/09. These case studies illustrate an idea of the type of fraud NFI can identify.
Frequently asked questions - NFI public sector
21 January 2010
Frequently asked questions for the National Fraud Initiative.
Central government departments and agencies
1 July 2011
The success of the National Fraud Initiative (NFI) has resulted in the government giving new powers to the Commission under the Serious Crime Act 2007 to enable the benefits of NFI to be shared with ...
National Fraud Initiative instructions 2010/11
1 July 2011
The following series of pages contain instructions for bodies participating in NFI 2008/09.
Code of data matching practice
21 July 2008
The purpose of this Code is to help ensure that the Commission and its staff, auditors and all persons and bodies involved in data matching exercises comply with the law.
Fair processing notice - Full text
20 May 2010
Level 3: Full text