| Heading: |
Department for Work and Pensions: Contracts |
| Question ID: |
1789616 |
| UIN: |
42182 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-27 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5302 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Noah Law
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| Asking Member handle: |
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Noah Law
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the cost effectiveness of the outsourcing the (a) assessment and (b) administration of welfare. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
2025-04-02 |
| Date answered: |
2025-04-03 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4979 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Western
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| Answering Member handle: |
andrewhwestern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@andrewhwestern
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
We do not outsource the assessment or administration of social security in any wholesale manner, although some elements of these services are outsourced to third parties.Where these services have been outsourced, each arrangement is subject to individual ... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |