Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what due diligence her Department undertook in advance of Fedcap Employment taking over contracts held by Working Links (Employment) Ltd.

The Department’s commercial Employment Category team has a standard due diligence process that applies where there is a potential change of control associated with contracts. This was undertaken on Fedcap Employment Ltd and other companies above it in its group structure.