Employment and Support Allowance

(asked on 19th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when Ministers authorised a change to the ESA65B letter to GPs telling them there is no longer a need for them to supply fit notes to their patients who had been found fit for work through a Work Capability Assessment.


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Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 22nd March 2019

I refer the Honourable Member to the response given on 6 June 2018 to Parliamentary Question 146986.

The original internal recommendation to change the ESA65B letter was in summer 2016.

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