(1) What (a) are the agreed (i) time frames and (ii) budget spent by her department on investigating reported cases (aa) within the Community Works Programme and (bb) of irregular, fruitless, wasteful and unauthorised expenditure, (b) mechanism has her department put in place to minimise the investigation period and (c) harsher punitive measures has her department put in place against corruption and pre-empting corruption? NW2745