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date	05/12/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Disability: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the proposals set out in the Government Response to the Work Capability Assessment: Activities and Descriptors Consultation, published on 22 November 2023, on trends in the level of disabled people in poverty.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	5350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>It is not possible to produce a robust estimate of the impact of the changes to Work Capability Assessments on levels of poverty for disabled people or people with or health conditions. The overall financial impacts of these measures on individuals have been considered in taking decisions on the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), alongside consideration of the responses to the consultation.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for Budget Responsibility have published their assessment of the numbers that they expect to be affected by the changes and HMT have also published the impacts in their policy costing note that accompanies the Autumn Statement. We aim to publish an Impact Assessment in due course.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/12/2023 15:12:09 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

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date	07/11/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Disability: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposals in the Work Capability Assessment: activities and descriptors consultation on the number of disabled people living in poverty.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	900022
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>The consultation closed on Monday 30 October and covered a range of options on the Work Capability Assessment. We received over 1,300 responses to the consultation and these are now being considered.</p><p>The department has developed estimates of the number of claimants impacted across the range of options being considered in the Work Capability Assessment activities and descriptors consultation.</p><p>Assessing poverty impacts would involve projecting forward every household’s income and individual circumstances, which is not possible to do with confidence.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/11/2023 16:45:29 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows