§ Mr. BradleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will give details of the membership of the group considering the criteria for eligibility for the proposed incapacity benefit.
§ Mr. ScottAs part of the consultation exercise on the proposed new objective medical test for incapacity benefit, we have convened a group of 80 experts to consider the details of the test. These experts are disabled people, representatives of disability organisations, doctors from the fields of general practice, occupational medicine, rheumatology, spinal disorders, public health, rehabilitation medicine, psychiatry and clinical psychology, chest and heart disease, diabetes and endocrinology, pain management, medical oncology and surgery, occupational speech therapists, physiotherapists and academics and researchers in the field of disability.