Lord Beecham – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Beecham on 2015-12-02.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 1 December (HL3877), whether they plan to compile data relevant to the assessment of whether Work Capability Assessment tests are connected to the incidence of suicide or mental health problems in disability benefit claimants, and to make that data publicly available; and if not, why not.

Lord Freud

The Department does not hold the relevant information required and we have no plans to collect such information.