Question follow-through · 6249
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of response times to hon. Members when making enquiries to his Department on behalf of constituents about benefit claims.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 22 Jun 2026 · 20 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
2 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of response times to hon. Members when making enquiries to his Department on behalf of constituents about benefit claims.
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Department recognises that response times to hon. Members’ enquiries on behalf of constituents have not been consistently adequate in recent months, as higher complaint volumes and increasingly complex cases have affected our response times. However, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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