Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 33991

Social Security Benefits

Tabled: 26 February 2025
Answered: 5 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Apsana Begum

LabourPoplar and Limehouse

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2024 to Question 20272 on Social Security Benefits, whether she plans to conduct a statutory public inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005 into (a) deaths and (b) ser

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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