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Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 10 September 2025

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Sickness Benefits: In-person Interviews

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My Lords, the Health Minister has reported concerns about the over-medicalisation of normal human emotions such as sadness and anxiety and the labelling of those as mental health conditions. I am sure that the Minister will know—indeed, I am sure that the whole House will be aware of this—that that is behind much of the rise in the numbers of sickness and disability claims. In the Minister’s excellent work, on which I commend her, in bringing back these face-to-face assessments, will she review the process of assessing these mental health conditions so that this can be targeted at the people who are in genuine and serious need?
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