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Written question asked by Marsha De Cordova (Labour) on Monday, 5 September 2022, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 7 September 2022. It was answered by Julie Marson (Conservative) on Thursday, 15 September 2022 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.


Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on staffing costs for contract management for contracts to deliver (a) Personal Independence Payment assessments and (b) Work Capability Assessments in each year since 2012-13.

Answer

Available information on the cost of DWP staff managing the contracts for a) Personal Independence Payments and b) Work Capability Assessments is as follows:

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

£m

£m

£m

£m

PIP

1.146

1.055

1.132

1.360

WCA

1.150

1.268

1.340

1.590

Information for earlier years is not available due to changes in the Finance systems used and how they are structured, limiting our ability to specify the cost of similar, comparable cohorts of DWP staff.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
47644
Session
2022-23
Subjects
Contracts Department for Work and Pensions Staff Work capability assessment Personal independence payment
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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