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date	12/03/2020
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	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Minister for Disabled People’s letter of 3 May 2019 to the former hon. Member for Kensington apologising for his predecessor’s incorrect answers on who authorised the revision to the original wording of the ESA65B letters to employment and support allowance claimants’ GPs, when her Department first sought the advice of the Cabinet Office on proposed revised wording.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	28729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2020 answer text <p>The Department first consulted with the Cabinet Office on revising the ESA65B letter in November 2014.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 18/03/2020 15:26:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1184577

registered interest
date	12/03/2020
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	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Minister for Disabled People’s letter of 3 May 2019 apologising for his predecessor’s incorrect answers in March and May 2018 on who authorised the revision to the original wording of the ESA65B letters to employment and support allowance claimants’ GPs, for what reasons that was not corrected in the Answers of (a) 6 June 2018 to Question 146986, (b) 3 July 2019 to Question 155401 and (c) 22 March 2019 to Question 234145.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	28730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2020 answer text <p>For clarity, and following checks with the Table Office, it appears question UIN 155401 referenced in part (b) of the question was answered on 3 July 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant Parliamentary Questions were corrected with a letter to the Member for Kensington which was issued on 3 May 2019 and a copy placed in the House Library.</p><p> </p><p>It was decided to make the correction this way because of the time that had elapsed since the original answers were given, and to provide a correction to all of the answers at once to avoid potential confusion. They cannot now be amended on the Parliament Q&amp;A System because we are now in a different Parliamentary session.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/03/2020 11:17:43 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum