Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 20272
Social Security Benefits
Tabled: 16 December 2024
Answered: 20 December 2024
Question
Apsana Begum
Labour — Poplar 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 TimmsThe 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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