Drew Hendry – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Drew Hendry on 2015-10-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to monitor regional variations in benefit uptake.
Priti Patel
Estimates of take-up are not available at geographies below Great Britain. This is due to the size of the survey sample they are based on and methods used to generate robust national figures.
However, on 25th June 2015 the Department for Work and Pensions published the report “Income-related benefits: Estimates of take-up in 2013/14 (experimental)”. The full report can be found at:
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