Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve the responsiveness of his Department's helplines.
Answered by Andrew Western
We are continuing our efforts to improve our telephony services.
We have prioritised service reform through focusing extra resource to boost our performance.
Our call answering rate has increased to 86 per cent, the average answering time improving from eight minutes 34 seconds to seven minutes 22 seconds.
Our efforts have cleared up agent work queues and freed up capacity.
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