Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 20272

Social Security Benefits

Tabled: 16 December 2024
Answered: 20 December 2024

Question

Apsana Begum

LabourPoplar and Limehouse

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to conduct a public inquiry into (a) deaths and (b) serious harm linked to the social security system.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The department is fully supportive of the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s ‘safeguarding vulnerable claimants’ inquiry, which is examining how the department supports vulnerable benefit claimants and whether its approach to safeguarding needs to chang...

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