Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the lessons learned from the errors in the calculation of payments of employment and support allowance.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the urgent question on 18 October 2018: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-10-18/debates/3FBBBA7F-57A4-460C-AE64-C58BA2A44F1E/EmploymentAndSupportAllowanceUnderpayments

We have learned a great deal from this exercise. As we have regularly told the House and Select Committees, the culture and mechanisms in the Department for spotting errors have been fundamentally reviewed. As we have discussed at length—this is a matter of public record—people in the Department and stakeholders came forward and pointed out some of the problems with the migration, but the Department responded in the belief that they were a series of one-off errors.