Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 16 February 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of people with cancer who are eligible for disability living allowance who will be ineligible for the personal independence payment.
We are currently consulting on the reform of disability living allowance with the key proposal of a new benefit, to be known as personal independence payment, which will be introduced from 2013. The Department has made no such estimate because disability living allowance and its successor are designed to recognise the extra costs associated with disability and are not based on diagnoses or condition.
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