Personal Independence Payment

Neil Coyle Excerpts
Tuesday 23rd January 2018

(6 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Esther McVey Portrait Ms McVey
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I thank my hon. Friend, because the point really is about the practicalities of getting this right. It is about engaging with stakeholders and charities. It is about working with our Department to get this right. Mind has welcomed the decision, as have other charities, and it is working with us. Once we have worked through that, obviously we will disseminate it through the whole system.

Neil Coyle Portrait Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark) (Lab)
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The Secretary of State says that the Department will now be identifying the 164,000 disabled people who were wrongly denied the help to which they are entitled. Her Department also recently announced it is scrapping a target it previously denied existed—that of upholding 80% of initial decisions. When will the DWP be contacting the 83,000 disabled people who were potentially wrongly denied help under that equally dodgy practice?

Esther McVey Portrait Ms McVey
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We will do everything systematically and coherently. We will get to people affected by any incorrect decision as soon as possible.