Clause 21
Welfare Reform Bill
8:45 pm
Danny Alexander (Shadow Minister and Disability Spokesperson, Work & Pensions; Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Liberal Democrat)
The burden of the point on which I sought clarification was fairly simple. If the assessment of entitlement to the benefit—in other words, the decision that someone is entitled to ESA—is made less than 13 weeks from the date at which entitlement starts, does the assessment phase end at that point?