Welfare support for terminally ill people

Early day motion 250, tabled 28 June 2021 by Drew Hendry (Scottish National Party). Signed by 40 members.

That this House notes that Marie Curie and the Motor Neurone Disease Association estimate that more than 6,000 people have died waiting for a decision on their benefits claim since the Department for Work and Pensions announced its review of the benefits system for terminally ill people and the Special Rules for Terminal Illness scheme in 2019; further notes that that review has yet to be published despite the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Terminal Illness's inquiry report of 2019 revealing that the six-month rule leaves terminally ill people facing devastating and far-reaching financial hardship and crippling debt; and calls on the Government to urgently publish its report into how the benefits system treats terminally ill people and bring forward proposals to end that punitive six-month rule without further delay.

Signatures by party: Scottish National Party 23, Labour 5, Plaid Cymru 3, DUP 2, Independent 2, Alba 1, Green 1, Labour/Co-operative 1, Liberal Democrat 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.