Department for Work and Pensions: Public Expenditure
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Core Table 1 on page 269 of the Department's 2024/5 Annual Report, if he will provide a breakdown of the £2,722m spent on 'Purchase of Good and Services' in Total Resource DEL in 2024/5, as well as an explanation of why that total was planned to increase to £3,840m in 2025/6.
Answered by Andrew Western
Please see attached breakdown of the £2,722m spent on Purchase of Goods and Services in 2024-25.
The main reasons for the increases from 2024-25 outturn compared to 2025-26 Main Estimate plans are quoted in the Main Estimate 2025-26 Memorandum.
- Get Britain Working initiative which aims to address rising economic inactivity and create an inclusive labour market (£240m)
- Funding for Synergy which has increased as the programme moves to the next stage of delivery (£78m)
- Resource Augmentation contract in Targeted Case Review (TCR) that was signed mid-way through 2023-24 (£60m).
- Funding for Disability and Fraud, Error and Debt measures announced in the Spring Statement has been allocated in the Main Estimate (£80m).
- Money and Pension Services additional funding to develop the Pensions Dashboard, Money Helper Pensions Dashboard and Dashboard support (£15m)
- Money and Pension Services additional funding for debt advice (£12m)
There were further increases reported across a number of other programmes.
The Main Estimate allocates budgets based on the initial Department allocations following the Spending Review, for information this Total DEL Purchase of Goods and Services value at the Supplementary Estimate was reported as £3,264m.
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