Department for Work and Pensions: Staff
(asked on 5th September 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on staffing costs for contract management for contracts to deliver (a) Personal Independence Payment assessments and (b) Work Capability Assessments in each year since 2012-13.
Available information on the cost of DWP staff managing the contracts for a) Personal Independence Payments and b) Work Capability Assessments is as follows:
| 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 |
| £m | £m | £m | £m |
PIP | 1.146 | 1.055 | 1.132 | 1.360 |
WCA | 1.150 | 1.268 | 1.340 | 1.590 |
Information for earlier years is not available due to changes in the Finance systems used and how they are structured, limiting our ability to specify the cost of similar, comparable cohorts of DWP staff.