Department for Work and Pensions Accounts 2021-22
Public Accounts Committee
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Inquiry
The Committee will question senior officials at the Department for Work and Pensions on how they managed benefits and employment support in the second year of the pandemic – including current levels of fraud and error in benefits payments - and ongoing efforts to address major delivery issues like the …
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Recommendations
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Conclusions
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Report
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Oral session
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Event
Activity timeline 4 events
24 Feb
2023
2023
9 Nov
2022
2022
20 Jul
2022
2022
Oral evidence
20 Jul
2022
2022
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
20 Jul 2022
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Department for Work and Pensions Accounts 2021-22
Bozena Hillyer · Department for Work and Pensions
Elizabeth Fairburn · Department for Work & Pensions
Neil Couling CBE · Department of Work and Pensions
Peter Schofield · Department for Work and Pensions
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| Title | HC No. | Published | Items | Response |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty-Sixth Report - The Department for Work and Pensions’ Acco… | HC 44 | 9 Nov 2022 | 31 | Responded |
Recommendations & Conclusions
5 results
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Conclusion
Acknowledged
Twenty-Sixth Report - The Departme…
On the basis of a Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), we took...
On the basis of a Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), we took evidence from the Department for Work & Pensions (the Department) on its 2021–22 Annual Report and Accounts and the level of fraud and error in …
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Government Response
The government agrees and says it has committed to the target implementation date and will keep the Committee up to date on the progress of this via the existing TM25 recommendation.
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Conclusion
Acknowledged
Twenty-Sixth Report - The Departme…
The Department told us it had included numbers in its Annual Report and Accounts for...
The Department told us it had included numbers in its Annual Report and Accounts for the savings from its efforts to reduce fraud and error. The Department’s 2021–22 Annual Report included an estimate for the impact of its activities to …
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Government Response
The government published an estimate of £2 billion in savings from counter fraud efforts in the 2021-22 ARA and is committed to working with the NAO to ensure agreement on the framework for the 2022-23 ARA.
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Recommendation
Acknowledged
Twenty-Sixth Report - The Departme…
As part of our previous examination of the Department’s 2019–20 Accounts, we recommended that the...
As part of our previous examination of the Department’s 2019–20 Accounts, we recommended that the Department should monitor and report any discrimination or bias caused by using artificial intelligence and machine learning on different claimant groups.41 In its response to …
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Government Response
The government is committed to ensuring assurances and governance for data and analytics functions and is considering the best method on reporting this information to Parliament annually.
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Recommendation
Acknowledged
Twenty-Sixth Report - The Departme…
We asked the Department about the degree of transparency that the public can expect to...
We asked the Department about the degree of transparency that the public can expect to have about how its data analytics and machine learning tools will work. The Department told us that this was a “challenging balance”. It cautioned that …
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Government Response
The government is committed to ensuring assurances and governance for data and analytics functions and is considering the best method on reporting this information to Parliament annually.
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Conclusion
Acknowledged
Twenty-Sixth Report - The Departme…
In our January 2022 report, we warned that, given the nature of underpayments identified, there...
In our January 2022 report, we warned that, given the nature of underpayments identified, there was a risk that similar, unidentified errors existed in the State Pension caseload.60 In 2021–22 the Department identified several new groups of pensioners potentially affected …
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Government Response
The government agrees with the recommendation to work with HMRC to evaluate the extent of the HRP underpayment and provide a timetable for completion. Investigation is underway, but estimates of affected people and costs are not yet available.
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