Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 22513

Social Security Benefits: Chronic Illnesses and Disability

Tabled: 7 January 2025
Answered: 14 January 2025

Question

Matt Bishop

LabourForest of Dean

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that planned reforms to the disability benefit system ensure security and support for seriously ill and disabled people.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
This government believes there is a strong case to change the system of health and disability benefits across Great Britain so that it better enables people to enter and remain in work, and to respond to the complex and fluctuating nature of the health co...

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