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Means-tested Benefits: Greater Manchester

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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 54971, tabled on 25 November 2016

Question

Andy Burnham
Labour
Leigh
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many hardship payments have been issued by his Department to people living in Greater Manchester in each year since 2012.

Answer

Damian Hinds
Conservative
East Hampshire
Commons

Answered on

30 November 2016

The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

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Department for Work and Pensions
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