Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff were (a) recruited and (b) reassigned by his Department to work on the (i) awareness-raising campaign and (ii) applications for Pensions Credit in the latest period for which data is available.

We have reassigned the full time equivalent of 100.27 colleagues and recruited 85 temporary staff to process the increased levels of Pension Credit Claims following the successful Pension Credit Campaign.