Question follow-through · 39633

Department for Work and Pensions: Maladministration

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of payments her Department has issued as a result of maladministration in the last 12 months.

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
24 Mar 2025
Answer
27 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of payments her Department has issued as a result of maladministration in the last 12 months.

  2. 24 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The information requested is published within the DWP Annual Reports and Accounts. Data for April 2024 to March 2025 will be published in the 2024/25 DWP Annual Reports and Accounts in or around July 2025.The latest published data is for the period April ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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