Civil Servants: Allowances

(asked on 21st July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, under what circumstances senior civil servants are required to give express prior written permission for expenses; and what such expenses are.


Answered by
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Steve Webb
This question was answered on 1st September 2014

Personal expense claims are authorised in business areas across all the DWP operational and corporate units. This information could therefore only be provided at disproportionate cost to the Department.

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