Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

The complainant has requested various information related to oversight of the benefit claim process. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has identified all of the information falling within the scope of the request. The Commissioner does, however, find that DWP breached section 10(1) of FOIA as it failed to confirm that some of the information was held until the Commissioner’s investigation, outside of the statutory timeframe. The Commissioner does not require DWP to take any further steps.