Cases of public sector fraud and data manipulation are set to increase over the coming months as government spending cuts put more pressure on managers to meet performance targets, experts have warned.
Ian Elliott, who leads the government and public sector forensic services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, told Public Finance that data manipulation was on the rise in public sector organisations in the face of tighter budgets, particularly among NHS trusts striving to meet waiting list targets.
His practice was experiencing a 50% increase in investigations compared with this time last year, with many cases larger in size too .
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