Jim Fitzpatrick – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Fitzpatrick on 2016-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has for the number of full-time equivalent staff to be in the benefit cap processing team when the lower benefit cap is implemented; and what estimate he has made of the cost of those staff to the public purse.

Caroline Nokes

The implementation funding for additional benefit cap processing is circa £1.4m to provide an additional 44 FTE staff in steady state for Universal Credit and current benefit claimants.