Paul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, in writing, on 9 February 2011:

In respect of the Home Insulation Program:

(1) What is the Government doing:

(a) about allegations of; and

(b) to elicit information from residents about; fraudulent rebate claims by installers.

(2) What is the process by which claims of alleged fraud are considered.

(3) How many claims of alleged fraud have been

(a) received and

(b) investigated.

(4) Of those cases investigated,

(a) how many have been completed, and what were the outcomes; and

(b) what number resulted in prosecutions, and what were the outcomes.

(5) How many prosecutions are in train.

(6) In how many cases have steps been taken to seek restitution from fraudulent claimants, and what was the outcome including how many cases for restitution were successful, and the individual and total sums of restitution recovered.

(7) Throughout the entire process (ie, investigation, prosecution, restitution, etc) what information is provided to owners of premises who have made claims of fraud.

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