Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee’s Occasional Paper 25 of December 2020 entitled How DWP involves disabled people when developing or evaluating programmes that affect them, if she will implement Recommendation 3 of that Paper that recommends that her Department should recruit a large-scale panel of disabled people with experience of social security that it can consult regularly, and draw from, to work on detailed projects.

I am grateful to the Committee for their report and pleased to see that our sustained efforts to engage with disabled people have been recognised. We are planning to respond to the Committee in the coming weeks.