Question follow-through · 17335
Department for Work and Pensions: Members
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made on reducing the time taken to provide a substantive response to casework enquiries from Members of Parliament.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jul 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made on reducing the time taken to provide a substantive response to casework enquiries from Members of Parliament.
14 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Department recognises that response times to casework enquiries from Members of Parliament have been impacted by increased volumes and the complexity of cases requiring detailed investigation. To address this, the Department has deployed additional re...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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