Improving Lives: Work, Health and Disability Green Paper Debate
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Heidi Allen
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Improving Lives: Work, Health and Disability Green Paper
Heidi Allen Excerpts(8 years, 2 months ago)
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Damian Green
I am grateful for the expertise the hon. Gentleman brings to this. I will take both his points on board. In fact, on his second point, he may have seen that I have already announced that we are going to stop retesting those with a condition that already means that they cannot work and that will only stay the same or get worse. That seems to me a piece of pointless and fundamentally heartless bureaucracy that we can happily get rid of.
Heidi Allen (South Cambridgeshire) (Con)
I encourage the Secretary of State to apply his very human and welcome fresh pair of eyes to the whole system. Damage will be done to his very good intentions if he proceeds with the cuts to universal credit work allowances and the ESA WRAG. I urge him to personally understand the risks in proceeding with both of those cuts.