| Heading: |
Universal Credit: Work Capability Assessment |
| Question ID: |
1812841 |
| UIN: |
60110 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-16 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5052 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Patrick Hurley
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Patrick Hurley
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people who receive the Universal Credit (UC) health element and do not receive the Personal Independence Payment daily living component will lose their entitlement to the UC health element once |
| Is named day: |
false |
| 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 Pathways to Work Green Paper announced that we would be scrapping the Work Capability Assessment and moving to a single assessment for financial support related to health and disability benefits. The UC and PIP payment Bill currently before Parliament... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |