Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2015 to Question 2685, if he will make it his policy to respond to Parliamentary Questions seeking benefits statistics which are held by his Department in Stat-Xplore by publishing extractions of the relevant data in those Answers.

The Department makes a wide range of official statistics readily available via the GOV.UK website and also via online portals such as Stat-Xplore. The Department follows agreed procedures on how to provide statistics when answering parliamentary questions by using links to the appropriate pages and data portals. This is an efficient way of answering the volume and wide range of parliamentary questions received.