Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 19 October 2009.
There is a new assessment, which considers what people can do rather than what they cannot do. As I said, 195,000 people have begun that process, which is backed up with the pathways to work programme. We are assisting people to find employment. The incapacity benefit test is very different from the work capability assessment under the new arrangements, and part of the programme is that we want to see more people in employment rather than confined to incapacity benefit year after year.
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ROBERT HOOD
Posted on 9 Nov 2009 7:44 pm (Report this annotation)
the average atos origin medical lasts 20 minutes at a cost to the tax payer of £ 50 per examination . these atos doctors can earn
£5000 per week and their company contract is worth 800 million from 2005 to 2012 . new labour new health service new privatisation ?