Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled People

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:05 pm on 6 March 2019.

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Photo of Neil Coyle Neil Coyle Labour, Bermondsey and Old Southwark 1:05, 6 March 2019

I congratulate my hon. Friend Debbie Abrahams on securing the urgent question. I share the welcome for the exemption of those over state retirement age from routine reassessments. Will the Government look again at exempting all those with learning disabilities and progressive conditions, including all those who only secured their benefit—ESA or PIP—through the tribunals process? The Minister is right that some disability organisations will welcome fewer assessments, but the fear or anxiety for disabled people is that the high error rate in existing processes will be transferred. Will the Minister give more detail about how that process will be improved and how individual disabled people and disability organisations can help to shape any new process, and when that will begin?