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Safeguarding vulnerable people: how DWP learns lessons from serious cases

Non-inquiry session

The Work and Pensions Committee held an evidence session with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to ask her about how DWP learns lessons from cases involving the deaths of people who claim benefits. This session followed a report by the National Audit Office, published in February 2020, on Information held by the Department for Work & Pensions on deaths by suicide of benefit claimants.

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Wednesday 22 July 2020
9:30am Public
Safeguarding vulnerable people: how DWP learns lessons from serious cases - Oral evidence 22 July 2020
9:30am
  • Rt Hon Dr Thérèse Coffey (Secretary of State at Department for Work and Pensions)
  • Peter Schofield (Permanent Secretary at Department for Work and Pensions)
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

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