A West London council has boosted its ability to fight fraud and secure essential government grants partly thanks to its use of AI. Hammersmith and Fulham Council launched its Fraud, Recovery and Error Detection (FRED) programme, which uses data and AI, earlier this year.

The council said FRED has already identified more than £1 million in savings and new income for 2025/26. Cllr Rowan Ree, Cabinet Member for Finance and Reform, said Hammersmith and Fulham is keen to push new technologies “as far as possible”, improving not only how it spends money “but also how we deliver services”.

As with other councils across the UK Hammersmith and Fulham has had to find creative ways of operating in an increasingly tight fiscal environment. It says that since 2010 it has had a 54 per cent redu

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