PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Work and Pensions: Staff (5 September 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on staffing costs for contract management for contracts to deliver (a) Personal Independence Payment assessments and (b) Work Capability Assessments in each year since 2012-13.

Asked by:
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)

Available information on the cost of DWP staff managing the contracts for a) Personal Independence Payments and b) Work Capability Assessments is as follows:

	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22
	£m	£m	£m	£m
PIP	1.146	1.055	1.132	1.360
WCA	1.150	1.268	1.340	1.590

Information for earlier years is not available due to changes in the Finance systems used and how they are structured, limiting our ability to specify the cost of similar, comparable cohorts of DWP staff.

Answered by:
Julie Marson (Conservative)
15 September 2022