Dispatches

Fraser Nelson investigates the sharp rise in working-age people on sickness benefits, up a million in just five years. Over the course of three months Fraser has been filming with people living on benefits, as well as with top experts and politicians. He finds a broken system that can drive people towards benefits rather than work, with costs that threaten to derail the government's hopes of economic growth.

Dispatches reporter Ellie Flynn investigates Britain's obsession with skinny jabs and asks whether profits are being prioritised over patient safety. Undercover filming exposes the drugs being sold by a major high street chain to an under-age patient; and exposes registered NHS nurses prescribing the jabs without proper checks on patients. With an estimated half a million Britons currently being prescribed these drugs, Ellie talks to experts, who are concerned about the lack of oversight. 'Where there are huge profits to be made, unfortunately,' says one, 'that can lead to cutting of corners'. Ellie asks why there are so many patients living with obesity who are unable to get these jabs on the NHS, and reveals for the first time entire areas of the country where the NHS is not prescribing the drugs. 

For the first time, Dispatches investigates and tracks down the woman who facilitated Mohamed Al Fayed's sexual abuse of women at Harrods. Reporter Cathy Newman hears testimony from victims of the former Harrods owner who allege that a former senior employee of Harrods was instrumental in enabling and covering up their rape and abuse by the notorious billionaire over more than a decade. Newman hears how the woman would recruit young girls inside the world-famous store and even out on London's streets, then deliver them to Fayed. Afterwards, she would threaten and persuade the women to keep quiet about what happened to them.