Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average cost is of undertaking a paper-based work capability assessment.
The Health and Disability Assessment Services (HDAS) Contract is let on a target cost of service basis alongside performance incentives and remedies rather than on an output cost per assessment or administrative task basis. Therefore, we are unable to provide an average cost per assessment undertaken for paper based, telephone or face to face work capability assessments.