Select Committee · Work and Pensions Committee

Safeguarding vulnerable people: how DWP learns lessons from serious cases

Status: Closed Opened: 2 Jul 2020 Closed: 31 Oct 2023
Inquiry scopeThe Work and Pensions Committee held an evidence session with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to ask her about how DWP learns lessons from cases involving the deaths of people who claim benefits. This session followed a report by the National Audit Office, published in February 2020, on Information held by the Department for Work & Pensions on deaths by suicide of benefit claimants .

Oral evidence sessions

1 session

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Date Session and witnesses Source
22 Jul 2020
Work and Pensions Committee meeting
Peter Schofield · Department for Work and Pensions, Rt Hon Dr Thérèse Coffey · Department for Work and Pensions
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Who gave evidence

2 witnesses

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WitnessOrganisationSessions
Peter Schofield · Permanent Secretary Department for Work and Pensions 1
Rt Hon Dr Thérèse Coffey · Secretary of State Department for Work and Pensions 1

Correspondence

3 letters

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