Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 39154

Social Security Benefits: Disability

Tabled: 18 March 2025
Answered: 24 March 2025

Question

Lisa Smart

Liberal DemocratHazel Grove

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of reducing disability benefit on the health of people with long term and fluctuating conditions.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course. An important consideration in the case for abolishing the Work Capability Assessment is the inappropriateness of its binary distinction between “capable of wor...

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