Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to re-deploy staff of her Department to assist with processing new applications for social security benefits during the covid-19 outbreak.
Our priority as a Department is ensuring people get their benefit payments and that we can continue to support those who need us the most.
We are re-deploying over 10,000 staff to critical frontline services as well as recruiting additional staff to support this priority.