Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant the Answer of 16 May 2018 to Question 142517, whether the change in wording to the ESA65B letter to claimants’ doctors was authorised by the Cabinet Secretary at the request of the then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Officials from this Department engaged with the Cabinet Office on the development of new wording of the ESA65B letter, but changes were authorised by the then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who has responsibility.