Health and safety watchdog explains for first time why it refuses to investigate DWP deaths

Key Points

**The health and safety watchdog has explained for the first time why it has never investigated the hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths of disabled benefit claimants linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over the last 16 years.** The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) says [in its 10-year strategy](https://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/assets/docs/the-hse-strategy.pdf) that its aim …