PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Security Benefits (10 October 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints his Department received in relation to the delay to a payment of benefit owing to the lack of an appropriately trained healthcare professional in the latest period for which figures are available.

Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)

The DWP complaints system does not collect information at this level of detail.

All assessments are carried out by appropriately trained health care professionals.

Answered by:
Penny Mordaunt (Conservative)
16 October 2017