Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department contracted GovCoin to undertake trials on the use of blockchain technology for the welfare and benefits system.
In 2016, we ran a proof of concept pilot to explore GovCoin’s (DISC) capability. The pilot came to an end in early 2017.
The are no contractual obligations with Govcoin and we have no plans to do any further work with GovCoin