Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Attorney-General – in the House of Commons at 2:05 pm on 8 January 2013.

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Photo of Derek Twigg Derek Twigg Labour, Halton 2:05, 8 January 2013

On disabled people, paragraph 24 of the Secretary of State’s impact assessment, which has just been published, states:

“Nevertheless, despite this protection…those households where someone describes themselves as disabled, (under the DDA definition) some of whom will not be eligible for a disability benefit, are more likely to be affected than those where there is not a person” in that category.