HC Deb 06 May 1994 vol 242 cc686-9W
Mr. Bradley

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) if he will list the organisations responding to the consultation document on the medical test for incapacity benefit;

(2) how many of the responses to the consultation document on the medical test for incapacity benefit (a) were in favour of the approach outlined in that document and (b) expressed criticisms; and when he will publish the responses.

Mr. Scott

The table lists the organisations that have responded to the consultation document. All the responses have been helpful and we have taken account of them in the further development of the new test of incapacity. A report will be published in August summarising all the stages in the development of the test.

List of organisations responding to the consultation document

  • Aberdeen Mental Health Services Customer Group
  • Action on Disability
  • ACT-UP Manchester (Aids Coalition to unleash power)
  • ADSS Disabilities Committee
  • Age Concern
  • Alzheimer's Disease Society
  • Alzheimer's Scotland
  • Arthritis Care
  • Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
  • Association of Directors of Social Work
  • Association of Disabled Professionals
  • Association of Metropolitan Authorities
  • Backpain Network
  • Bexley Association of Disabled People
  • Birmingham City Council welfare rights
  • Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
  • Bradford Citizens Advice Bureau
  • Brighton Association of Tenants With Disabilities
  • Brighton, Hove and Lewes Mental Health Development Group
  • British Association of Social Workers
  • British Association of Social Workers Renal Special Interest Group
  • British Diabetic Association
  • British Epilepsy Association
  • British Institute of Industrial Therapy
  • British Migraine Association
  • British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society
  • British Society for Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Bromsgrove and Redditch Patients and Carers Forum for Mental Health
  • Camden Council Welfare Rights Unit
  • Cancer Relief MacMillan Fund
  • Carers National Association
  • Caring Costs
  • Chester Lodgings and Support Project
  • Child Poverty Action Group
  • Church Action on Poverty
  • City of Bradford Metropolitan Council welfare rights
  • City University Department of Systems Science
  • Cleveland County Council welfare rights
  • Cleveland Mental Health Support Group
  • Congleton Sector Planning Group for Mental Health
  • Consultation and Advocacy Promotion Service
  • Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
  • Crewe Welfare Rights Forum
  • Cystic Fibrosis Trust
  • Derbyshire Branch of the National Federation of the Blind of the UK
  • Derbyshire Centre for Integrated Living
  • Derbyshire County Council welfare rights
  • DIAL UK
  • Disabled Advice Bureau
  • Disabled Living Foundation
  • Disabilities Coalition (Boothferry, Glanford, Scunthorpe) Outreach Project
  • Disability Action Project
  • Disability Alliance
  • Disability Network
  • Disability Scotland
  • DISC Trinity Community Centre
  • Drumchapel Law and Money Advice Centre
  • Dumfries and Galloway Citizens Advice Bureau benefits advice project
  • Dundee Association for Mental Health
  • Dunfermline Forum on Disability
  • East Lothian Volunteer Bureau
  • East Suffolk Advocacy Network
  • East Suffolk MIND
  • Edinburgh Volunteer Exchange
  • Enfield Disability Information and Advice Project
  • Epilepsy Association of Scotland
  • First Steps to Freedom
  • Flint and District Trades Union Council
  • Friedrich's Ataxia Group
  • General Medical Services Committee
  • George House Trust
  • Grampian Action for Psychiatirc Services
  • Greater London Association of Disabled People
  • Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People
  • Great Yarmouth Borough Council welfare rights
  • Greenwich Association of Disabled People's Centre for Independent Living
  • Group for Improved Living for the Disabled.
  • Headway National Head Injuries Association
  • Hereford and Worcester County Council
  • Herefordshire DIAL
  • Herefordshire Lifestyles
  • Hertfordshire County Council welfare benefits advice
  • Humberside Coalition of People With Disabilities
  • Humberside Committee for Employment of People with Disabilities
  • Ileostomy Association of GB and Ireland
  • Independent Living (1993)
  • Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
  • Island Disability Action Group
  • Isle of Wight County Council services for disabled people
  • Islington Community Aids Resources
  • Islington Council Welfare Rights
  • Joint Consultants Committee
  • Kent County Council, Dartford and Gravesham Area Advice Forum
  • Kent Turnaround Trading Ltd
  • Kingston Association of Disabled People
  • Kirkcaldy Forum on Disability
  • Lambeth Accord
  • Lancashire County Council Welfare Rights
  • Leeds Citizens Advice Bureau
  • Leeds City Council welfare benefits unit
  • Leicester City Council welfare rights
  • Lewes and District MIND
  • Link—Glasgow Association for Mental Health
  • Llanrumney Community Project
  • London Borough of Barnet Disablement Association
  • London Borough of Greenwich Anti Poverty Sub-Committee
  • London Borough of Lambeth
  • London Borough of Wandsworth welfare rights unit
  • London East Aids Network
  • Lucas Industries plc
  • 688
  • Manchester and District Motor Neurone Disease Association
  • Manchester MIND
  • Manchester Royal Infirmary speech and language therapy unit
  • Manic Depression Fellowship
  • Manic Depression Fellowship (Scotland)
  • MENCAP
  • Mental Health Foundation
  • Merseyside Welfare Rights Resource Centre
  • MIND
  • MIND in Haringey
  • Mobility Trust
  • Multiple Sclerosis Society of GB and NI
  • Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire
  • Muscle Power
  • Myasthenia Gravis Association
  • NACAB
  • Nantwich and District Citizens Advice Bureau
  • Narcolepsy Association (UK)
  • National Advisory Council of Employers of People with Disabilities
  • National Association for Colitis Care and Crohn's Disease
  • National Asthma Campaign
  • National Back Pain Association
  • National Council for Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Services
  • National Federation of the Blind of the UK disability income committee
  • National Kidney Federation
  • National Deaf-Blind League
  • National Union of Teachers
  • National League of the Blind and Disabled
  • National Schizophrenia Fellowship
  • Network for the Handicapped
  • Newcastle Mental Health Consumer Group
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne Council for the Disabled
  • Newham Anti Poverty and Welfare Rights Unit
  • Northern Back Exchange
  • North London ME Network
  • North Tyne Council of Employers of People with Disabilities
  • North Tyneside Council
  • North Tyneside Disability Advice Centre
  • North West London group of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship
  • North Yorkshire Welfare Benefits Unit
  • Norwich Branch of The National League of the Blind and Disabled
  • Nottingham Repetitive Strain Injury Support Group
  • Office of Population, Census and Surveys
  • Oxford MIND
  • Oxfordshire Welfare Rights
  • Parentability
  • Parkinson's Disease Society
  • Patient Initiatives
  • Pensioners and Disabled Alliance
  • Pheonix Day Hospital, Bury St. Edmunds, Psychiatric Rehabilitiation Services
  • Physically Impaired People of Pembrokeshire Association
  • Pitsmoor Citizens Advice Bureau
  • PLUS Self Help Association
  • Policy Studies Institute
  • Portsmouth Community Advice Centres
  • Powys Health Care NHS Trust
  • Professional Association of Teachers
  • RADAR
  • Renfrew District Disability Council
  • Repetitive Strain Injury Association
  • Richmond Fellowship Workschemes
  • Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council advice service
  • Rolls-Royce plc
  • Rotherham Department of Social Services
  • Royal College of General Practitioners
  • Royal College of Nursing
  • Royal College of Physicians
  • Royal Liverpool University Hospital Trust
  • Royal London Society for the Blind
  • Royal National Institute of the Blind
  • Scottish Association for Mental Health
  • Scottish Churches Industrial Mission
  • Scottish Council for Single Homeless
  • Scottish Users Network (of mental health services)
  • Sheffield Visually Impaired Peoples Group
  • Southampton Centre for Independent Living Ltd.
  • South Glamorgan County Council mental health services
  • South West Region of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship
  • Spastics Society
  • Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit
  • St. Mungo Association
  • Stafford Centre
  • Stirling & District Association for Mental Health
  • Strathclyde Forum on Disability
  • Strathclyde Regional Council social work department
  • Suffolk County Council social services
  • Suffolk County Council, West Suffolk welfare rights group
  • Sunderland Citizens Advice Bureau
  • Terrence Higgins Trust
  • The Action Group
  • The Brighton and Hove Federation of the Disabled
  • The British Network of Clubhouses
  • The British Polio Fellowship
  • The British Psychological Society
  • The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
  • The Churches Council for Health and Healing
  • The Disablement Income Group
  • The Dystonia Society
  • The Enham Trust
  • The Law Society
  • The Leonard Cheshire Foundation
  • The Mental After Care Association
  • The National Association of Retired Police Officers
  • The Neurofibromatosis Association
  • The Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust
  • The Pain Society
  • The Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • The Royal London Trust and London Hospital
  • Medical College
  • The Society of Occupational Medicine
  • The Stroke Association
  • Trades Union Congress
  • United Biscuits UK Ltd
  • University of Southampton, Rehabilitation Research Unit
  • University of York, Social Policy Research Unit
  • Wakerley Lodge Younger Disabled Unit
  • Wales Council for the Blind
  • Waltham Forest Consumer Protection Services
  • Waltham Forest DIAL
  • War Widows Association of Great Britain
  • Wells and District Group of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship
  • West Glamorgan County Council
  • West Suffolk Hospital mental health services
  • Whitchurch Hospital Rehabilitation Specialism
  • Win Visible
  • Worcester ME Support Group
  • Work Recovery Europe Ltd
  • Work Rehabilitation Consortium
  • Yeovil and Sherborne Branch of Multiple Sclerosis Society of GB and NI