SECRET PROBE ON 140 DEATHS WHILE CLAIMING BENEFITS

MP wants public inquiry into DWP

- JOHN SIDDLE and JOHN PRING

BENEFITS chiefs have launched secret inquiries into deaths of 140 disability claimants during Boris Johnson’s three years as PM.

The probes are triggered when tragedies are linked to the Department of Work and Pensions own actions – such as stopping benefits.

Even grieving families are not told of the investigations. Now a Labour MP has called for a public inquiry into what the DWP calls Internal Process Reviews over tragedies including suicides.