Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2023 to Question 121021 on Social Security Benefits: Overpayments, how many claimants have contacted the Department's Debt Management team to discuss a temporary reduction in their rate of repayment in each of the last five years.

We have recently introduced a broad measure of the proportion of customers who have a reduction in their repayment terms. This currently stands at 13%.