National Audit Office Releases Information Held by The Department for Work & Pensions On Deaths By Suicide Of Benefit Claimants

SUICIDES - The National Audit Office has today published a briefing that sets out the findings from our enquiries with the Department for Work & Pensions on the information it holds on benefit claimants who ended their lives by suicide, This in response to correspondence the NAO received from The Rt Hon Frank Field MP chair of the Work & Pensions Committee.

The briefing can be accessed via the attachment and on the NAO website

In October 2019, the Rt Hon Frank Field MP wrote to the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) regarding the Department for Work and Pensions’ response to a Parliamentary Question Mr Field raised in September 2019, on the topic of benefit claimants who had ended their lives by suicide. The C&AG, in his response to Mr Field, proposed that the NAO engage with the Department to establish what information the Department holds on benefit claimants who ended their lives by suicide, how that information is produced, and how it is stored, accessed and used.

Image: Should Iain Duncan Smith face a criminal investigation? 

Yes please, an investigation should be conducted into Iain Duncan-Smith as the architect of Universal Credit and deaths caused by inadequate social support for vulnerable UK Citizens. Deliberate "social murder" has been enabled by the Conservative Government toward its own Citizens.

          Says Karen

I agree with John McDonnell there should be an investigation and we should all be concerned about the way disability claimants are treated. Starving people to death is unacceptable. Totally immoral and it should not be happening in a civilised society.

          Says Julia

Great news.

           Says Ian

There are a lot of people who think that there should be a criminal investigation into Iain Duncan Smith's conduct as DWP minister and that of senior DWP chiefs. 

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Information held by the Department for Work & Pensions on deaths by suicide of benefit claimants, please download below: