Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will ensure that claimants who are moved on to universal credit when employment and support allowance is withdrawn after an assessment and who subsequently get that decision overturned on appeal can claim employment and support allowance at their previous rate.

Claimants whose health condition remains unchanged and who move from Employment and Support Allowance to Universal Credit, following a fit for work decision that is subsequently overturned, will have their Universal Credit assessed on the basis of having limited capability for work or limited capability for work and work-related activity.

In these circumstances claimants will also be paid any arrears of Employment and Support Allowance that are due up until their claim for Universal Credit.