Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 26 March 2024.
Siobhain McDonagh
Labour, Mitcham and Morden
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on trends in the number of people with problem debt; and if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of those trends.
Paul Maynard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
DWP Debt Management holds information on people owing monies to DWP (benefit debt recovery) but does not hold data on general, personal/household indebtedness.
Problem debt statistics are published by the Office for National Statistics.
Yes2 people think so
No3 people think not
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