Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2015 to Question 3935, what factors in addition to efficiency his Department took into account in its decision to use links to Stat-Xplore to answer Parliamentary Questions.

It is the Department’s policy to make as wide a range of detailed statistics available via on-line tools to allow everyone equality of access and support the Government’s Open Data agenda. These are designed to be comprehensive and easy to use so all users can extract the information they need. DWP staff will be holding training sessions for the House of Commons officials and MP’s in the near future.