| Heading: |
Incapacity Benefit |
| Question ID: |
1786498 |
| UIN: |
39722 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5138 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Ian Roome
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| Asking Member handle: |
IanRoomeMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@IanRoomeMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her planned timetable is for restarting mandatory reassessments of incapacity benefits. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-25 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Answer text: |
We will turn on WCA reassessments at scale as we build up capacity to do so. We will initially prioritise reassessments for people who are most likely to have had a change in their circumstances including those who have short-term prognoses, for which we ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |