Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 82023

Social Security Benefits: Disability

Tabled: 14 October 2025
Answered: 22 October 2025

Question

James Naish

LabourRushcliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will consider how people with life-long disabilities caused by receiving sodium valproate in utero will be affected by welfare reforms when planning those reforms.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
In our Pathways to Work Green Paper, we set out plans to remove the WCA and move to using the PIP assessment as the single assessment for additional financial support for disabled people and people with long-term health conditions in England and Wales. To...

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