Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to improve the health assessments process for people with (a) multiple sclerosis and (b) other relapsing and progressive conditions.

We recognise that improvements could be made to the assessment process for health and disability benefits and are committed to making changes in this area.

In the Shaping Future Support Green Paper published last year we set out several areas we wish to explore, taking in account feedback from a wide range of stakeholders including disabled people, disability charities, academics and thinktanks to better understand what needs to change, and how.

We will follow up on the responses to this Green Paper with a White Paper later this year to outline the changes we want to make.