| Heading: |
Social Security Benefits: Maladministration |
| Question ID: |
1761303 |
| UIN: |
28258 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-02-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5329 |
| Asking Member display name: |
John Milne
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
John Milne
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the number of employees working on benefit (a) underpayments and (b) overpayments. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-06 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4979 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Western
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| Answering Member handle: |
andrewhwestern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@andrewhwestern
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
His Majesty’s Treasury allocated DWP £110m to deliver on the fraud, error and debt Autumn Budget measures over the next financial year. As part of this, the Department is hiring an additional 3,000 staff to expand DWP’s Fraud, Error and Debt (FED) operati... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |