Part of Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at on 27 January 2020.
Mary Glindon
Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Farming and Rural Communities)
Atos, Capita and Maximus constantly fail to meet their targets for acceptable standards of assessment, and many claimants in North Tyneside have suffered as a result. Will the Minister tell my constituents how his Department will remedy such failures and explain why the Government have seen fit to reward those companies with extended multimillion-pound contracts?
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