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Every year, according to the Prime Minister’s efficiency adviser, Sir Peter Levene, at least £5 billion — one-tenth of the whole of the current public deficit — is lost in benefit fraud (Henessy, 1993). This ‘revelation’ should occasion anger, perhaps, but none of the surprise with which it has been greeted in many quarters.
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Marsland, D. (1996). The Contradictions of State Welfare: Philosophical and Theoretical Incoherence. In: Welfare or Welfare State?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24576-5_2
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