| Heading: |
Social Security Benefits: Disability |
| Question ID: |
1785849 |
| UIN: |
39154 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5070 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lisa Smart
|
| Asking Member handle: |
|
| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Lisa Smart
|
| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
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. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
|
| Date answered: |
2025-03-24 |
| Date answer corrected: |
|
| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
|
| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
|
| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
|
| Correcting Member ID: |
|
| Correcting Member display name: |
|
| Correcting Member handle: |
|
| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
|
| Answer text: |
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... |
| Original answer text: |
|
| Comparable answer text: |
|
| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |