Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

(asked on 11th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 19 March 2019 t Question 232109 on Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations, whether her Department plans to collect data on the number of disabled people participating in the Proof of Concept who are subsequently found to have Limited Capability for Work and Work Related Activity.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 29th April 2019

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 4 April 2019 to Questions 239290, 239291 & 239292.

Small numbers of participants involved may limit the ability to breakdown the data by specific groups.

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