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Debate between Annette Brooke and Sheila Gilmore
Monday 28th March 2011
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Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole) (LD)
5. What recent progress has been made on implementing the recommendations of the Harrington review of work capability assessment.
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East) (Lab)
19. What recent progress has been made on implementing the recommendations of the Harrington review of work capability assessment.
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Chris Grayling)
We are committed to taking forward Professor Harrington’s recommendations so that we can make the system we inherited from the previous Government fairer and more effective. Many of the changes he proposed are already in place, and we will implement the remainder by the summer, to coincide with the first work capability assessments of incapacity benefit claimants taking part in the full nationwide reassessment.