Jim Gee, the former head of NHS Protect, the body charged with combatingfraud within the health service, called the the system in hospitals "unworkable".
Shadow chancellor Michael Portillo backed the measures to reduce benefit fraud, but accused the government of having missed its targets for combating welfare fraud every year since it came to office.
CO2 Tech Ltd, a publicly traded company based in London that claimed to sell products for combating global warming, found itself on the wrong side of criminal fraud charges brought by the U.S. Department of Justice last week.