§ The Countess of Marasked Her Majesty's Government: What services SchlumbergerSema provides for the Benefits Agency and the Department for Work and Pensions. [HL4909]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Baroness Hollis of Heigham):SchlumbergerSema is contracted to provide the following services to the Department for Work and Pensions: medical advice and examinations in connection with claims to benefit under a contract awarded in 1998 and managed by Jobcentre Plus; and operation of a Customer Conversion Centre under a contract to convert people who currently receive benefit by order book or giro to payment by automatic credit transfer (ACT). This contract was let by the central DWP payment modernisation programme in 2003.