Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 101461

Social Security Benefits: Compensation

Tabled: 18 December 2025
Answered: 2 March 2026

Question

Anneliese Dodds

Labour (Co-op)Oxford East

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the mean and mode amounts of consolation payments are, in any years his Department has data for.

Answer

Andrew Western
The number of consolatory payments authorised and the mean amounts per financial year to benefit claimants in the last ten years are in the table (below). The department records aggregated data for each quarter rather than individual level payments, there...

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