Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 28 February 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make a statement on his plans for reforms of incapacity benefit; and what estimate he has made of the number of people who will find work as a result of his plans.
We have recently set out our plans for fundamental reform of incapacity benefits in our Five Year Strategy. We want to create a new framework of support for people who can return to work and offer greater security to those who face the greatest obstacles to doing so.
Our aim is to have the key elements of the package in place by 2008, but this will be dependent on being able to roll out Pathways to Work nationally first. We cannot yet make an estimate of the numbers who find work as a result of these reforms.
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