Department for Work and Pensions: Correspondence
(asked on 9th March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on sending letters in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 15th March 2016
Departmental postage costs over a 3 year period are:
2015/16 - £41.5m (this figure represents this years’ costs, forecast on to the end of the financial year)
2014/15 - £41.7m
2013/14 - £46.4m
These figures are based on internal management information, therefore have not been subject to rigorous quality assurance processes used for published figures.
DWP despatch in the region of 140 million items of post every year.