Clause 10
Welfare Reform Bill
5:00 pm
David Ruffley (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; Bury St Edmunds, Conservative)
On the capability report in pathways, which has been used as a model—certainly that was the intention for the new assessment—was the hon. Gentleman as surprised as I was to discover that evaluation work done by the Department found, first, that the reports were sent rather late to personal advisers and, secondly, that the IB PAs thought that in many cases the reports were repetitive and included less than useful generic information? Does he join me in hoping that those problems have been designed out of pathways to work and that they will play no part in the new regime, which we hope will operate much better than the capability report?