Employment and Support Allowance

Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 12 February 2015.

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Photo of Michael Meacher Michael Meacher Labour, Oldham West and Royton

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many persons in the Support Group for Employment and Support Allowance have been called in each month since January 2013, for further work-focused interviews after already assessed as not fit for this kind of activity in each month since January 2013; and what steps he is taking to reduce the number of such interviews.

Photo of Mark Harper Mark Harper Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Disabled People)

Claimants placed in the Support Group have no obligation to attend Work Focused Interviews. We therefore do not hold information on those claimants invited for Work Focused Interviews.

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