Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Welfare Reform (Disabled People)

Part of Opposition Day — [8th allotted day] – in the House of Commons at 1:17 pm on 28 October 2014.

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Photo of Sheila Gilmore Sheila Gilmore Labour, Edinburgh East 1:17, 28 October 2014

We have heard such assurances for the best part of the past year. Fast-tracking terminal illnesses was promised months ago. Surely the problem is with the policy. At the outset, many people said that it was not necessary to throw the whole thing up in the air and start again, and that the system had not been well thought through. When the Select Committee asked the Minister’s predecessor but two how it would be possible to process so many assessments and reassessments in the time scale given, we were told that there would be no problem, and there has clearly been a major problem. The Government cannot easily sort out the problem, so will the Minister consider whether some of the policy drivers are the wrong ones?