Clause 8
Welfare Reform Bill
10:30 am
Tim Boswell (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; Daventry, Conservative)
The hon. Gentleman will not be surprised to hear that I am very much sympathetic to the lines of his argument; they are entirely congruent with what we have heard from disability and other organisations over the years.
Would the hon. Gentleman accept that there are two practical problems with his amendment? First, in relation to multiple conditions, is it possible for any one examiner to have the sufficient range of knowledge to be able to embrace all the difficulties and their interaction? Secondly, in order to produce the full range of expertise it might be necessary to have a panel of people examining simultaneously, which could be extremely daunting for the claimant.