Health assessments for benefits
Inquiry by the Work and Pensions Committee, 27 September 2021 to 7 August 2023. Its page on the Parliament website.
Reports and responses
- Easy Read - Health assessments for benefits: summary (14 April 2023)
- Fifth Report - Health assessments for benefits (14 April 2023)
- Large Print - Health assessments for benefits (14 April 2023)
- Sixth Special Report - Health assessments for benefits: Government response to Committee’s Fifth Report of Session 2022–23 (26 June 2023)
- Large Print - Health assessments for benefits: Government response (26 June 2023)
Evidence sessions
- 1 December 2021: Paul Gray CB, Department for Work and Pensions
- 1 December 2021: Dr Paul Litchfield CBE, Department for Work and Pensions
- 12 January 2022: Morgan Vine, Independent Age; Joanne Gordon, Asbestos Victims Support Groups’ Forum UK; Helen Wild, Down’s Syndrome Association; Marc Francis, Zacchaeus 2000 Trust (Z2K)
- 12 January 2022: Louise Rubin, Scope; Hannah Nicholls-Harrison, Mencap; Charles Smith, Citizens Advice; Sophie Corlett, Mind; Evan John, Sense
- 16 March 2022: Tracey Lazard, Inclusion London; Patricia Vespucio, GIPSIL; Jane Hunt, Association of Disabled Professionals
- 16 March 2022: Sarah Rawlings, MS Society; Catherine Hale, Chronic Illness Inclusion Project; Jasmine Wyeth, Rethink Mental Illness
- 30 March 2022: Caroline Cooke, Forces in Mind Trust; Philip Martin, University of Salford/Sanctions, Support and Service Leavers; Andy Pike, The Royal British Legion
- 11 May 2022: Dr Kieran Sharrock, British Medical Association; Minesh Patel, Macmillan Cancer Support; Aaron Dryden, Carers UK; Mark Jackson, Marie Curie
- 11 May 2022: Daphne Hall, National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers (NAWRA); Hannah Nicholls-Harrison, Disability Benefits Consortium; Caroline Selman, Public Law Project
- 25 May 2022: Stuart Paterson, Independent Assessment Services; Dr Barrie McKillop, Independent Assessment Services; Antony King, Capita; Laura Erskine, Capita
- 25 May 2022: Emma-Jane Bannister, Maximus; Suzie Frew, Maximus; Dr Paul Williams, Maximus
- 22 June 2022: Professor Ben Barr, University of Liverpool; Dr Ben Baumberg Geiger, University of Kent
- 29 June 2022: Ben Macpherson MSP, Scottish Government; Matthew Duff, Scottish Government; Professor Paul Knight OBE, Social Security Scotland
- 20 July 2022: Chloe Smith MP, Department for Work and Pensions; Gill Holmes, Department for Work and Pensions; Katie Farrington, Department for Work and Pensions