Question follow-through · 54054

Department for Work and Pensions: Information Sharing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support the Government’s Open Data Agenda; and whether she plans to expand secure access to selected datasets for the purposes of reducing financial exclusion.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 21 May 2025
Target answer date: 2 Jun 2025
Answer: 5 Jun 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

21 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support the Government’s Open Data Agenda; and whether she plans to expand secure access to selected datasets for the purposes of reducing financial exclusion.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2025
Answer published
DWP promotes a culture of encouraging data sharing for public good whilst ensuring this is done in a secure, legal and ethical way. DWP requires both a lawful basis and legal power to share personal data. DWP already has over 1,300 live data shares with o...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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