Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2019 to Question 232109 on Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations, whether the design of the proof of concept will take account of the potential effect of reducing conditionality requirements on the Department’s ability to avoid sanctions.

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

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