Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made on replacing the Work Capability Assessment.

As we committed to in Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper, we are actively engaging with disabled people and people with health conditions and our stakeholders as we develop our proposals.

We set out the intention to transform the benefits system for the future so that it focuses on what people can do, rather than what they cannot. We will legislate to remove the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) so that in future there is only one health and disability assessment – the PIP assessment. This will mean that there will be no need to be found to have limited capability for work and limited capability to prepare for work to get additional income-related support for a disability or health condition. The degree of change in our proposals will require primary legislation, which we will aim to take early in a new parliament, when parliamentary time allows.