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Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 19 November 2007.

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Photo of Chris Grayling Chris Grayling Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 2:30, 19 November 2007

In fact, the first time we heard about that was in a press release from his Department in January 2006.

Will the Secretary of State confirm that today's announcement involves 20,000 fewer people claiming incapacity benefit? Will he confirm that that represents less than 1 per cent. of the total of 2.6 million currently claiming the benefit? Unless he manages to increase his current rate of progress, he is set to be 25 years late in hitting his target of getting 1 million people off incapacity benefit.