Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 12336

Work Capability Assessment: Earley and Woodley

Tabled: 1 November 2024
Answered: 7 November 2024

Question

Yuan Yang

LabourEarley and Woodley

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of (a) the number of constituents in Earley and Woodley who will be impacted by the proposed reforms to the Work Capability Assessment and (b) the average financial impact on

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The Department does not hold constituency-level information about the specific Work Capability Assessment descriptors met by claimants, so we are unable to estimate impacts for individual constituencies robustly.