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Witnesses

Monday 3 February, Wilson Room

At 4.30pm:

• Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
  
• Robert Devereux, Permanent Secretary
  
• Mike Driver, Director General for Finance

Purpose of the session

This will be a wide-ranging session, covering the expenditure and administration of the Department for Work and Pensions across its areas of responsibility, arising from the DWP Annual Report and Accounts for 2012-13 (PDF 2.59MB), which were published in December 2013.

The issues to be discussed are likely to include:

• Trends in benefit expenditure
  
• Implications for DWP expenditure of announcements in the Spending Round and the Autumn Statement 2013
  
• Costs of Universal Credit implementation, including IT expenditure and the new digital solution

This is the second meeting with the Secretary of State to discuss the DWP Annual Report & Accounts 2012-13.  The first session was held on 9 December 2013 and focused on DWP statistics and Universal Credit. Further information about that meeting is available online.

The  DWP Annual Report and Accounts (ARA) for 2012-13 (PDF 2.59MB) was expected to be published at the end of June 2013 but was eventually published on 10 December 2013.

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