Public sector
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.
Select your type of organisation:
- Local government
- Health
- Police and Fire and rescue
- Housing associations
- Probation
- Central government
National Fraud Initiative instructions
The following series of pages contain instructions for bodies participating in the NFI. Directors of Finance, Chief Executives, NFI Senior Responsible Officers and NFI key contacts will be alerted to changes to these instructions by email.
The fee for the NFI exercise is set based on the number and range of core datasets applicable.
The National Fraud Initiative 2010/11, in England has identified almost 229 million of fraud, overpayments and errors. This is made up of 139 million for 2010/11 plus 90 million of outcomes not previously reported from earlier exercises.
The NFI has now helped to identify £939 million worth of fraud, overpayment or error across UK public bodies since it began 16 years ago.