Chris Law – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Law on 2016-01-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the implications for his policies are of the finding of the National Audit Office in its recent report, Contracted-out health and disability assessments, HC 609, of 5 January 2016, that his Department is spending more on fit-for-work assessments than it is saving since reforming health and disability assessments.

Priti Patel

The purpose of the Work Capability Assessment is to assess fairly and accurately entitlement to benefit, not to generate savings.

We have commissioned independent reviews which have all concluded that the assessment regimes for health related benefits remain fit for purpose.