Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the amount of manual processing on paper that it carries out and to make such processing digital.
In DWP, digital tools are being deployed across the organisation that are supporting new ways of working including the reduction and reliance on printing and associated costs.
We have the following spend data for Office copier paper:
2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17* to March 2017 |
£2,543,643 | £2,173,328 | £1,670,000 | £1,400,000 | £1,011,000 |