Departmental Contracts for Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which services his Department has outsourced in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. (274441)

The Department for Work and Pensions has outsourced the following services in the last five years:

Year outsourced	Service outsourced	Agency
2009	Contact centre overflow services	Pension, Disability and Carers Service
2009	Contact centre overflow services	Jobcentre Plus

Volume 493: debated on Monday 1 June 2009