Question follow-through · 18056

Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employee settlement agreements there were in her Department in each year since 2020; and what the total value of such agreements is.

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 4 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 6 Dec 2024
Answer: 12 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employee settlement agreements there were in her Department in each year since 2020; and what the total value of such agreements is.
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2024
Answer published
Since April 2020 the DWP has agreed 127 employee settlements totalling £2,322,639. PeriodNumber of settlementsApril 2020 – March 202126April 2021 – March 202230April 2022 – March 202329March 2023 – April 202430April 2024 - date20 All settlements are made ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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