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1077512

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date	26/02/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Bereavement Support Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will provide an update on the Government's plans to reform bereavement support payments.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	226098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>Bereavement Benefits were reformed in April 2017, with the introduction of Bereavement Support Payment. We confirm that we intend to evaluate its impact once there has been enough time for the reforms to fully bed in.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/03/2019 14:48:29 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1077597

registered interest
date	26/02/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2019 to Question 223480 on Social Security Benefits: Fraud, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of recording that additional data.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	226063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>To provide a costing for adding this functionality the Department would need to analyse this change in more detail, assess the amount of effort required to develop and test it, review the priority against other work that is already committed to, and assess any potential impact it could have on current operational procedures. This assessment process is resource intensive; therefore the Department cannot justify the use of this resource as there is no business reason to add this functionality.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/03/2019 14:36:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1077653

registered interest
date	26/02/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Automation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 February 2019 to Question 220956, what the nature of the work is of the (a) 15 automations in use and (b) 11 automations due to go live in Quarter 3 of 2019.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	226165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>The nature of the work DWP is undertaking, using intelligent automation, is to improve the way that we engage with citizens and deliver our services by:</p><ul><li>automating repetitive, manual processes in order to reduce errors and improve processing time; and</li><li>automating some notifications to keep citizens informed of the status of their claims.</li></ul> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/03/2019 15:09:17 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley