Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) external data analysts and (b) data collection companies his Department has used in each of the last five years.

DWP makes use of external research and analytical organisations to help generate the evidence it needs in delivering the Department’s agenda on work, welfare and pensions. The selection of organisations with whom the Department works is governed by processes and frameworks set up by or in conjunction with the Crown Commercial Service, using open and fair competition to source the most appropriate and cost effective provider.

Complete information is not centrally held on which organisations the Department has used in each of the last five years. However, the following companies and organisations have been used to deliver projects in the centralised research programme over the last five years:

• Cambridge University Technical Services Ltd

• Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion (CESI)

• Ecorys UK Ltd

• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

• ICF Consulting Services Ltd

• Idox Software Ltd

• Institute for Employment Studies (IES)

• IFF Research

• Independent Social Research

• Insite Research & Consulting

• Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS)

• Ipsos MORI

• GfK NOP Ltd

• London School of Economics (LSE)

• MDRC

• National Centre for Social Research (NatCen)

• National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)

• National Learning and Work Institute

• Office for National Statistics (ONS)

• Pensions Policy Institute (PPI)

• Policis

• RS Consulting Ltd

• Sheffield Hallam University

• TNS BRMB / Kantar

• University of Bristol

• University College London (UCL)

• University of Essex

• University of Manchester

• University of Sheffield

• University of Warwick

• University of Westminster

• The University of York

All contracted research is published and these reports, including which external organisations produced them, can be found on the Department’s research web page at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&publication_filter_option=research-and-analysis&topics%5B%5D=all&departments%5B%5D=department-for-work-pensions

Contracts with organisations for data collection, and contracts for research that have not yet published a report can be found using the Contracts Finder on the gov.uk website:

https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search

Information on which organisations the Department has used for data analysis and data collection outside the centralised research programme is not held centrally.

DWP makes use of external research and analytical organisations to help generate the evidence it needs in delivering the Department’s agenda on work, welfare and pensions. The selection of organisations with whom the Department works is governed by processes and frameworks set up by or in conjunction with the Crown Commercial Service, using open and fair competition to source the most appropriate and cost effective provider.

Complete information is not centrally held on which organisations the Department has used in each of the last five years. However, the following companies and organisations have been used to deliver projects in the centralised research programme over the last five years:

• Cambridge University Technical Services Ltd

• Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion (CESI)

• Ecorys UK Ltd

• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

• ICF Consulting Services Ltd

• Idox Software Ltd

• Institute for Employment Studies (IES)

• IFF Research

• Independent Social Research

• Insite Research & Consulting

• Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS)

• Ipsos MORI

• GfK NOP Ltd

• London School of Economics (LSE)

• MDRC

• National Centre for Social Research (NatCen)

• National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)

• National Learning and Work Institute

• Office for National Statistics (ONS)

• Pensions Policy Institute (PPI)

• Policis

• RS Consulting Ltd

• Sheffield Hallam University

• TNS BRMB / Kantar

• University of Bristol

• University College London (UCL)

• University of Essex

• University of Manchester

• University of Sheffield

• University of Warwick

• University of Westminster

• The University of York

All contracted research is published and these reports, including which external organisations produced them, can be found on the Department’s research web page at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&publication_filter_option=research-and-analysis&topics%5B%5D=all&departments%5B%5D=department-for-work-pensions

Contracts with organisations for data collection, and contracts for research that have not yet published a report can be found using the Contracts Finder on the gov.uk website:

https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search

Information on which organisations the Department has used for data analysis and data collection outside the centralised research programme is not held centrally.