Department for Work and Pensions Accounts 2019-20

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 27 Jul 2020 Closed: 14 Sep 2020 Parliament page
For 32 years running, the National Audit Office has had to “qualify” the annual accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) because of the rate and level of error and fraud in the Department’s payment of benefits. In its report on DWP’s accounts for 2019-20, the NAO says … Read more
12 Recommendations
21 Conclusions
1 Report
1 Oral session
2 Letters
1 Event
Activity timeline 5 events
25 Oct
2021
Correspondence
10 Jun
2021
Correspondence
25 Mar
2021
Report published
18 Nov
2020
Report published
24 Sep
2020
Oral evidence
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
24 Sep 2020
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Department for Work and Pensions Accounts 2019-20
Bozena Hillyer · Department for Work and Pensions Neil Couling · Department for Work and Pensions Nick Joicey · Department for Work and Pensions Peter Schofield · Department for Work and Pensions
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Twenty-Sixth Report - Department of Work and Pensions Accounts 2… HC 681 18 Nov 2020 33 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
1 result
Clear
2 Recommendation Deferred
Twenty-Sixth Report - Department o…
Even before COVID-19, fraud and error overpayments were at their highest ever rates, with around...
Even before COVID-19, fraud and error overpayments were at their highest ever rates, with around £1 in £10 of Universal Credit paid incorrectly. The estimated overpayment rate, excluding State Pension, now stands at 4.8% (£4.5 billion) of benefit expenditure of … Read more
Government Response
The government agrees in principle but defers setting annual targets for fraud and error until 2021-22, as the COVID-19 pandemic requires detailed analysis to baseline the current position. It will consider the viability of individual targets then.
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Government Response AI assessment · 33 of 12 classified
Accepted 22
Accepted in Part 3
Acknowledged 1
Deferred 1
Not Addressed 6
Total 12 recs + 21 conclusions
Correspondence 2 letters
25 Oct 2021 Correspondence from Peter Schofield CB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions, re TM26 DWP Accounts 2019/2020 Recommendation 2, dated 22 September 2021
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10 Jun 2021 Correspondence from Peter Schofield CB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions, re TM26 – DWP Accounts 2019/20 – recommendation 7, dated 28 May 2021
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