Recommendation 5

In response to this Report, we ask the Government to outline the methodology used to determine when Internal Process Reviews are carried out, and how it has improved its collection of data on deaths and serious harms since the NAO report on Information held by the Department for Work & Pensions on deaths by suicide of benefit claimants in 2020. In addition, DWP should publish anonymised data annually on all instances Health assessments for benefits 89 of deaths or serious harms associated with health assessments, disaggregated to show incidence of suicide, the issues that led to these deaths, and the steps it has taken to remedy issues raised.