Question follow-through · 50195
Social Security Benefits: Prosecutions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in the debate on the Report stage of the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill o
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 6 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in the debate on the Report stage of the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill o
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
The Department does not use the term ‘sickfluencer’ as a defined term and, as such, does not collect data under this description. Furthermore, the Department is not a prosecuting body; DWP’s role is to refer cases for consideration of prosecution to the a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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