HC Deb 31 March 1999 vol 328 cc838-9W
Mr. Hoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what his Department is doing to help disabled people get jobs. [79717]

Mr. Bayley

I refer my hon. Friend to the written answer I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North and Fleetwood (Mrs. Humble) on 8 March 1999,Official Report, column 53.

Dr. Lynne Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer of 26 March 1999,Official Report, column 435, on disabled people, if he will list which of those individual respondents (a) felt that final decisions on whether to make interviews compulsory should await consideration of the results of piloting and (b) expressed concerns about the proposal to take account of occupational and personal pensions against incapacity benefit entitlement. [79780]

Mr. Bayley

All responses to the consultation were read and the results were fed into a qualitative analysis of respondents' views, which provided the basis for my previous answer to my hon. Friend. A record was kept of the policy areas on which each respondent commented but this did not include a record of the detailed points made in each case. To provide a list of individuals and organisations that made the particular points identified would involve re-examining every response and would incur disproportionate cost.