[
  {
    "id": "dwp-arac-2024-25",
    "title": "DWP annual report and accounts 2024 to 2025",
    "publisher": "Department for Work and Pensions",
    "kind": "official",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2024-to-2025",
    "published": "2025-07",
    "retrieved": "2026-10-27",
    "notes": "Registry entry; 2025-26 edition to be added (R-10)."
  },
  {
    "id": "dwp-bec-tables-2026",
    "title": "Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2026",
    "publisher": "Department for Work and Pensions",
    "kind": "official",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2026",
    "published": "2026-04-14",
    "retrieved": "2026-10-27",
    "raw_file": "raw/dwp/outturn-and-forecast-tables-spring-forecast-2026.ods",
    "sha256": "705fb8fb5ace47e37eafe0b3817d5a6de538ce8fb2a67746e8f92d15ecd616e6",
    "notes": "Spring Forecast 2026 edition, consistent with the OBR Economic and fiscal outlook, March 2026. Latest edition on the collection page (added 14 April 2026); no autumn 2026 edition published as of 27 October 2026. In this edition 2024-25 is the last outturn year and 2025-26 is a forecast. £ million nominal (Table 1a), £ million real terms in 2026-27 prices (Table 1b), caseloads in thousands (Table 1c); UK totals in £ billion on the UK_welfare_ sheet. Ingested with scripts/ingest_bec.py."
  },
  {
    "id": "dwp-fe-fye2026",
    "title": "Fraud and error in the benefit system, FYE 2026 estimates",
    "publisher": "Department for Work and Pensions",
    "kind": "official",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-ending-fye-2026-estimates/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-ending-fye-2026-estimates",
    "published": "2026-05",
    "retrieved": "2026-10-27",
    "notes": "Not yet ingested directly — figures currently taken via NAO. Task R-03."
  },
  {
    "id": "dwp-take-up-fye2025",
    "title": "Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up, FYE 2025",
    "publisher": "Department for Work and Pensions",
    "kind": "official",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-ending-2025/quick-guide-to-published-tables-and-results-for-financial-year-ending-2025",
    "published": "2026",
    "retrieved": "2026-10-27",
    "notes": "Not yet ingested. Task R-14."
  },
  {
    "id": "fullfact-benefits-faq",
    "title": "How much is being spent on benefits?",
    "publisher": "Full Fact",
    "kind": "secondary",
    "url": "https://fullfact.org/economy/benefits-faqs/",
    "published": "2026-08",
    "retrieved": "2026-10-27",
    "notes": "Secondary. Cites DWP benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2026."
  },
  {
    "id": "nao-dwp-overview-2025-26",
    "title": "Department for Work & Pensions overview 2025-26",
    "publisher": "National Audit Office",
    "kind": "official",
    "url": "https://www.nao.org.uk/overviews/department-for-work-pensions-2025-26/",
    "published": "2026-10",
    "retrieved": "2026-10-27",
    "notes": "Audited figures from DWP Annual Report & Accounts 2025-26. Full PDF: https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/dwp-do-2025-26.pdf"
  },
  {
    "id": "nao-fe-overpayments-2025",
    "title": "Tackling benefit overpayments due to fraud and error (summary)",
    "publisher": "National Audit Office",
    "kind": "official",
    "url": "https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Tackling-benefit-overpayments-due-to-fraud-and-error-Summary.pdf",
    "published": "2025-10",
    "retrieved": "2026-10-27",
    "notes": "Registry entry."
  }
]