Department for Work and Pensions: Staff
(asked on 18th October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff are deployed in her Department's offices in Walsall; which benefits those staff administer; and what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of staffing levels for each of the benefits administered in those offices.
This question was answered on 23rd October 2019
There are 241 Full time equivalents (FTE) employed in Walsall:
- 162 FTE are employed on Universal Credit; and
- 79 FTE are employed on Maternity Allowance.
All Social Fund work has been re-located and the staff have all moved across to Maternity Allowance.