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1702099

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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	Universal Credit: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average value was of Universal Credit claim overpayments in the 2022-2023 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>DWP measures its overpayments via annual national statistics published each May. However, we do not produce an estimate for the average value of a Universal Credit overpayment.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that the total value of Universal Credit overpayments in 2022-2023 was £5,540m: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2022-to-2023-estimates" target="_blank">Fraud and error in the benefit system: financial year 2022 to 2023 estimates - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 24/04/2024 13:06:08 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702100

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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: Underpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average value was of a benefits underpayment in the 2022-2023 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>DWP does not produce an estimate for the average value of a benefit underpayment.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that the total rate of benefit expenditure underpaid in 2022-2023 was £3.3bn: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2022-to-2023-estimates/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-ending-fye-2023" target="_blank">Fraudand error in the benefit system Financial Year Ending (FYE) 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 25/04/2024 16:14:25 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702101

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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	Personal Independence Payment: Underpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average value was of an underpayment of the Personal Independence Payment in the 2022-2023 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>DWP measures its underpayments via annual national statistics published each May. However, we do not produce an estimate for the average value of a benefit underpayment.</p><p> </p><p>Our estimates relating to PIP underpayments in 2022-23 can be found at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2022-to-2023-estimates" target="_blank">Fraud and error in the benefit system: financial year 2022 to 2023 estimates - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>Table 6 provides the total estimated value of PIP underpayments in 2022-23.</p><p> </p><p>Table 8 provides the estimated value of PIP underpayments due to claimant error. All claimant error underpayments were due to errors where the claimant’s condition had got worse, and they failed to inform the department (Functional Needs).</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 22507 question first answered 24/04/2024 13:01:27 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702102

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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	Personal Independence Payment: Underpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total value was of underpayments of the Personal Independence Payment due to recipients’ failure to update their medical need in the 2022-2023 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>DWP measures its underpayments via annual national statistics published each May. However, we do not produce an estimate for the average value of a benefit underpayment.</p><p> </p><p>Our estimates relating to PIP underpayments in 2022-23 can be found at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2022-to-2023-estimates" target="_blank">Fraud and error in the benefit system: financial year 2022 to 2023 estimates - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>Table 6 provides the total estimated value of PIP underpayments in 2022-23.</p><p> </p><p>Table 8 provides the estimated value of PIP underpayments due to claimant error. All claimant error underpayments were due to errors where the claimant’s condition had got worse, and they failed to inform the department (Functional Needs).</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 22506 question first answered 24/04/2024 13:01:27 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702103

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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	State Retirement Pensions: Underpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were underpaid the State Pension due to incorrectly updated National Insurance records in the 2022-23 financial year; and what the total amount is that these people are owed.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>This response covers both missing Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP) and UC National Insurance issues.</p><p> </p><p>The exercise to correct National Insurance records for those individuals impacted by errors in their HRP record is underway. The HRP corrections exercise started with HMRC dispatching letters in late 2023. Cases subsequently notified from HMRC started being processed in DWP in early 2024.</p><p> </p><p>In the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts 2022-2023, the central estimate was around 187,000 cases who may have an underpayment of State Pension and for whom we expect to correct, with a total underpayment estimate of £1,043 million.</p><p> </p><p>We intend to publish an update on the exercise in this year’s Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p> </p><p>DWP has corrected the UC data issue for the cases impacted for the tax years up to and including the tax year 2022/2023. This data has been shared with HMRC. As HMRC updates NI records, these updates are sent to DWP. Any State Pension entitlement will be reassessed, and any underpayment addressed accordingly.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 23/04/2024 12:53:28 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702105

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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	State Retirement Pensions: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department are responsible for manually updating records relevant to eligibility for the State Pension.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>This information is only available at disproportionate cost to The Department for Work &amp; Pensions as the Department does not have a business requirement for this information to be retained.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 23/04/2024 12:25:55 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702107

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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, with reference to the report by the National Audit Office entitled Department for Work and Pensions Accounts 2022-23, published on 6 July 2023, whether his Department has taken recent steps to amend the methodology it uses to estimate the financial impact of its counter-fraud activities.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>We review the methodology as part of publishing our annual accounts each year and will report on any agreed changes in the Annual Report and Account 2023/24 expected to be published in Summer 2024, following discussion with National Audit Office.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 24/04/2024 12:56:04 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702108

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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, what recent estimate he has made of the financial impact of his Department's counter-fraud activities in the 2023-24 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>DWP will publish details of the Department’s counter-fraud activities in the Annual Report and Accounts for financial year 23/24, expected to be published in Summer 2024.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 24/04/2024 12:52:54 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702109

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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, how much and what proportion of fraud and error was (a) prevented upfront and (b) detected after the event in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>Our estimate is that the Department prevented up front £17.1bn of fraud and error and detected £0.6bn after the event in the financial year 2022/23.</p><p> </p><p>Further details can be found in the Annual Report and Accounts 2022/23, link below.</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64a576d47a4c230013bba1e7/annual-report-accounts-2022-23-web-ready.pdf" target="_blank">Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 for the year ended 31 March 2023 (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>DWP will update these figures in the Annual Report and Accounts for financial year 23/24, expected to be published in Summer 2024.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 24/04/2024 12:45:12 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702110

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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, how much his Department has (a) spent on and (b) reduced its expenditure due to the expansion of targeted case reviews.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>Targeted Case Review (TCR) is currently scaling at pace to strengthen the department’s response to fraud and error within Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing £443 million to save £6.6 billion by March 2028.</p><p> </p><p>Investment in TCR for 2022-23 was £19.6 million. As set out in the DWP Annual Report and Accounts (ARA) 2022-23, TCR delivered DWP £39 million of savings, of which £14 million related to 2022-23 expenditure.</p><p> </p><p>We expect the majority of savings to occur in the final years of the project when Targeted Case Review is fully operational.</p><p> </p><p>The Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year 23/24 is expected to be published Summer 2024. This will include Targeted Case Review spend and expenditure. The Fraud and Error National Statistics will be published on 16 May 2024.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 26/04/2024 09:44:18 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle