Personal Independence Payment Debate
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Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
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Personal Independence Payment
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers Excerpts(8 years, 11 months ago)
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Lord Freud
I repeat what I said: we will continue to support disabled people and the vulnerable through that process.
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers (CB)
My Lords, at the end of her judgment, the judge commented that the Secretary of State appeared to be grappling with the situation in a way which was “entirely appropriate”. Does the Minister believe that was a fair comment?
Lord Freud
I think the judge very much took on board the fact that the Secretary of State realised that something that was simply unacceptable was going on and that we took very large measures to deal with it. Those measures included ramping up the numbers—we ramped up the number of health officials by a factor of four—and we had many more places to do the assessments, and so on. That is what has got the situation under control.