Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to ensure that disabled people who do not receive Personal Independence Payment but have work-related limitations are not adversely impacted by welfare reforms.

We are committed to protecting disabled people who can't and won’t ever be able to work and support them to live with dignity.

As part of making changes to the payment rates in Universal Credit, we are proposing that the incomes of those with the most severe, lifelong conditions who will never be able to work are protected.

We will also protect the incomes of existing claimants, by holding the value of the health element of UC in cash terms and increasing the standard allowance.