Benefits: Disability

House of Lords written question – answered at on 9 March 2011.

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Photo of Lord Morris of Manchester Lord Morris of Manchester Labour

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 25 January (WA 131), how many disabled people not living in residential care they expect will lose their existing benefit in consequence of projected cuts in spending on mobility help.

Photo of Lord Freud Lord Freud The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

As the new assessment for personal independence payment and the process for reassessing the existing DLA caseload are still being developed, I am unable, at this stage, to provide a precise estimate of the numbers of people the new benefit will support.

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