The government has admitted that more than 30 secret reviews carried out following the deaths of benefit claimants called for improvements in how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) operates locally and nationally. The “appalling” statistic has added to pressure […]
Debbie Abrahams
MP’s shock over civil servant’s U-turn on benefit deaths
MP asks civil servant to search benefit death reports to check on DWP blame
A senior civil servant has been asked by an MP to examine whether any of the 49 secret reviews into benefit-related deaths concluded that the government had been partly to blame. The question came as Conservative employment minister Esther McVey was […]