Question follow-through · 82863
Social Security Benefits: Overpayments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit overpayments his Department made in 2024; and what steps he is taking to reduce those payments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 27 Oct 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit overpayments his Department made in 2024; and what steps he is taking to reduce those payments.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Oct 2025
Answer published
We have committed to significant fraud, error and debt measures at Autumn Budget 2024 and Spring Statement 2025, which the OBR estimated will deliver an additional £9.6bn savings over the next five years. The Autumn Budget 2024 package was the biggest eve...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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