Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much (a) his Department's Debt Management team recovered in overpaid benefits from the estates of people who died in 2015 and (b) in overpaid benefits paid to people who had died was written off in 2015.

The value of recovery from estates of people who had died in 2015 is £25,490,422 as calculated at 13 December 2016.

The value written off in 2015, where the customer’s date of death fell in 2015, is £16,685,094.