Social Security Benefits: Paralysis

(asked on 16th October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has estimated the cost to the public purse of welfare payments made to people whose (a) paralysis and (b) loss of mobility has been made worse by secondary complications arising from (i) delayed and (ii) insufficient NHS rehabilitation.


Answered by
Stephen Timms Portrait
Stephen Timms
Minister of State (Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government) (Equalities)
This question was answered on 26th October 2026

No such estimate has been made.

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