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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

1675617

registered interest
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: Benefits Rules
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 Government's response to the Work Capability Assessment: activities and descriptors consultation, what estimate he has made of the proportion of consultation responses that were in favour of any of the proposals.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	5351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>We carefully considered the Work Capability Assessment consultation responses and feedback from our public events and engagement. We received over 1,300 written responses, including from disabled people and people with health conditions, as well as the organisations that represent and support them.</p><p>We do not have an estimate of the proportion that were in favour of any of the proposals.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 13/12/2023 14:10:00 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1669596

registered interest
date	13/11/2023
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	Work Capability Assessment
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 consultation entitled Work Capability Assessment: activities and descriptors, published on 5 September 2023, if he will make an estimate of the number of claimants that would no longer be found to have limited capability for work and work-related activity in (a) Motherwell and Wishaw constituency (b) Scotland and (c) the United Kingdom if each of the proposals in that consultation were implemented.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	1616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>DWP’s consultation on changes to the Work Capability Assessment closed on Monday 30 October. Over 1300 individuals and organisations submitted a response and 14 public consultation events were held, both face-to-face across Great Britain, and virtually. The consultation responses are now being considered and decisions will be taken in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The department has developed estimates of the impacts of these proposals on disabled people. We are continuing to refine these estimates as responses to the consultation are considered. This analysis is not available at a subnational level.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/11/2023 16:54:13 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows