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Social Security Benefits: Reform

Asked by Martin WrigleyLiberal DemocratDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 6 February 2025UIN 27896

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy that all changes to financial support for (a) people who are unwell and (b) disabled people be preceded by a public consultation.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

We are working to develop proposals for health and disability reform in the months ahead and will set them out in a Green Paper ahead of the Spring Statement. This will launch a public consultation on the proposals.

This Government is committed to putting the views and voices of disabled people at the heart of all that we do, so we will consult on these proposals, where appropriate, with disabled people and representative organisations.

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