Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department were allocated to deal with representations from hon. Members to address constituents' concerns on 1 October (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013, (d) 2014 and (e) 2015.

Many staff across the Department spend a proportion of their time working on ministerial correspondence.