Parkdrive Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I read somewhere that there are currently 3250 DWP > staff investigating benefit fraud of ?1.2bn, and > 300 HMRC staff investigating tax evasion of ?70bn. > If correct, that's extremely telling. Or it's not telling at all thinking through the numbers. I expect that you require a lot more knowledge for the latter, so it's more specialist and your 'pool' is smaller in terms of the number of fish in it (although the value is far higher) so it requires a smaller number of specialists fishing for a far higher value return rather than volume So if people think about it rather than pass this sort of thing round on social media - where it's doing the rounds - they might see why the numbers are like they are Not holding my breathe though, I suspect it will be passed round with growing outrage and anger in the vacuous world of Facebook etc