Henry McLeish, shadow social security minister, said: 'Peter Lilley is soft on organised fraud in housing benefit.
'Under the Tories housing benefit ependiture has doubled in a decade from £5.2bn to £11.1bn. As part of that, private sector housing benefit has trebled and the number of people claiming housing benefit in the private sector has doubled.'
He added: 'Peter Lilley has ignored the findings of the social security select committee, which said nearly £1 in £5 of housing benefit is fraudulently obtained.
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