Universal Credit: Work Capability Assessment

(asked on 20th February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Universal Credit Work Capability Assessments conducted (a) face-to-face, (b) on paper, (c) by telephone and (d) by video call led to a decision that the claimant had Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity in the year 2021-22.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 27th February 2023

The full information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

Note: Although the Assessment Provider records assessments carried out by channel, this information is not linked to DWP decisions. To match this data and quality assure the results would incur disproportionate costs.

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