| Heading: |
Social Security Benefits: Reform |
| Question ID: |
1816967 |
| UIN: |
63098 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-26 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5212 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dr Scott Arthur
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| Asking Member handle: |
DrScottArthurMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@DrScottArthurMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to (a) simplify the benefits system and (b) increase its accessibility for claimants. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-04 |
| 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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| Answer text: |
Our wide-ranging package of reforms to health and disability benefits, set out in the Pathways to Work Green Paper, will improve experiences of the system for those who need it. We are simplifying the system by abolishing the WCA and instead using the PIP... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |