| Heading: |
Universal Credit: Medical Examinations |
| Question ID: |
1814445 |
| UIN: |
61270 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5066 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Steve Darling
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Steve Darling
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who are (a) incapable of ever working and (b) will no longer have Universal Credit reassessments. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-24 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Department for Work and Pensions has not made a formal estimate of the number of people who are incapable of ever working. However, we recognise that a proportion of claimants receiving health-related benefits have severe or lifelong conditions that s... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |