Question follow-through · 28474
Social Security Benefits: Debts
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Direct Deduction Orders have been issues since the introduction of the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 21 Sept 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Direct Deduction Orders have been issues since the introduction of the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025.
11 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error, and Recovery) Act 2025 achieved Royal Assent on Tuesday 2 December 2025. The Act will help to address the significant challenge of public sector fraud and error, which costs the taxpayer billions of pounds annually. T...
Official data retrieved 25 Sept 2026.
Later records
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