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Work Capability Assessment: Earley and Woodley

Asked by Yuan YangLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 7 November 2024UIN 12336

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of (a) the number of constituents in Earley and Woodley who will be impacted by the proposed reforms to the Work Capability Assessment and (b) the average financial impact on

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

The Department does not hold constituency-level information about the specific Work Capability Assessment descriptors met by claimants, so we are unable to estimate impacts for individual constituencies robustly.

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