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Susan Elan Jones Excerpts
Monday 26th January 2015

(9 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mark Harper Portrait Mr Harper
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I think that our Disability Confident campaign has contributed to the fact that more than a quarter of a million extra disabled people have started work over the last year. I am also considering improvements that we can make to the Access to Work service, which plays an important role in helping people either to stay in work or to return to it.

Susan Elan Jones Portrait Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South) (Lab)
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T9. The Secretary of State said that by the start of this year no one would wait more than 16 weeks for a personal independence payment assessment. Will he tell us whether that is the case—yes or no?

Mark Harper Portrait Mr Harper
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As the hon. Lady will know, this Wednesday I shall publish some properly verified statistics. I shall also engage in a lengthy session before the Work and Pensions Committee, when I shall set out the facts in full, as I have been requested to do.