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Written Question
Department for Work and Pensions: Social Media
Thursday 6th November 2025

Asked by: Mike Wood (Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2025 to Question 78297 on Department for Work and Pensions: Social Media, which campaigns influencers were used on.

Answered by Andrew Western - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

For privacy and confidentiality reasons, we do not disclose our influencer database.

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 May 2020
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Oral Answers to Questions

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Oct 2018
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Oct 2018
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Oct 2018
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