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The Government is committed to maintaining transparency about its procurement activity and publishes information about its contracts with a value of over £10,000 on the \u201cContracts Finder<\/a>\u201d website.<\/p>

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Contracts that are due to be agreed can be found on the HMT Commercial Pipeline<\/a>. The next version of this is due be published at the end of July 2022.<\/p>

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The amount spent on monitoring each contract and the number of officials working on that monitoring each year since 2010 is information that is not held centrally and can only be provided at a disproportionate cost.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4484", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Alan Mak"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Havant"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Alan Mak"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2022-07-12", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2022-07-12T12:59:09.917Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "14"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Treasury"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Treasury"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2022-07-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Treasury: Contracts"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department\u2019s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/410", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jon Trickett"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Hemsworth"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jon Trickett"} ], "uin" : "29888"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1345235", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1345235/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

In the last month for which figures are available DWP paid out almost £3.5bn in Universal Credit and it should be noted that fraud and error in the benefits system remains low, with 95% of benefits, worth more than £200bn. paid correctly in 2020/21. Official Error overpayments remained at 0.4% of benefit expenditure last year, with UC Official Error Overpayments falling from 1.3% to 0.9%.<\/p>

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Deductions from UC are now capped at 25% (as of April 2021) having previously been 30%. Where requested deductions exceed the 25% maximum, or there is insufficient UC in payment for all deductions to be made, a priority order is applied, which determines the order in which items should be deducted. \u2018Last resort\u2019 deductions, such as rent or fuel costs, are at the top of the priority order, ensuring that claimant welfare is prioritised, followed by social obligation deductions, such as fines and child maintenance, and finally benefit debt, such as Social Fund loans and benefit overpayments.<\/p>

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Anyone with overpayment deductions who does experience financial hardship is encouraged to contact the Department\u2019s Debt Management unit. Where a person cannot afford the proposed rate of these deductions, a lower amount can be negotiated.<\/p>

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Deductions in respect of UC Official Error debt for the last 6 months are shown below:<\/p>

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Month<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

Value of in month recovery where debt category is official error<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

Average recovery per Customer in Month<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Jan-21<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

£12,470,549<\/p><\/td>

£67.47<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Feb-21<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

£14,464,840<\/p><\/td>

£67.15<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Mar-21<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

£16,444,768<\/p><\/td>

£70.11<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Apr-21<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

£16,524,866<\/p><\/td>

£69.95<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

May-21<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

£13,563,717<\/p><\/td>

£65.02<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Jun-21<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

£14,584,640<\/p><\/td>

£63.44<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

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* The data shown in the above table is taken from operational data systems, and is not intended for publication. Therefore, the data itself is not quality assured to the standard of published Official Statistics and National Statistics.<\/p>

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On 31 December 2019, Public Health England identified reports of an outbreak of undiagnosed viral pneumonia in Wuhan City, People's Republic of China and on 2 January 2020, the Department was alerted to these reports.<\/p>

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On 9 January 2020, Ministers were formally notified of the outbreak of undiagnosed viral pneumonia in Wuhan and provided with an update of its progression.<\/p>

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The World Health Organization posted a Disease Outbreak News (DON) item on 12 January which stated that a novel coronavirus was detected in 41 patients with pneumonia in Wuhan City. This DON can be found at the following link:<\/p>

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https://www.who.int/csr/don/12-january-2020-novel-coronavirus-china/en/<\/a><\/p>

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The Ministry of Defence undertakes regular assessments of potential threats to each of the UK overseas territories and ensures that we retain an appropriate level of defensive capability to address any such threats. We remain vigilant and committed to the protection of our overseas territories.<\/p>

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