Employment and Support Allowance

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 15 February 2011.

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Photo of Duncan Hames Duncan Hames Liberal Democrat, Chippenham 2:30, 15 February 2011

In Chippenham, 50% of such appeals are consistently upheld. Those cases need never have arisen if the Government's assessor, Atos Healthcare, had had a sufficient incentive to get the decisions right in the first place. The cost to the Department and the taxpayer was about £10 million last year. Will the Minister discuss with the Department for Work and Pensions mechanisms by which the liability could be transferred from the taxpayer to the Government's contractor?