Welfare State: Reform
(asked on 1st May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions Ministers of her Department have had with Ministers of the Department of Health and Social Care on the effect of welfare reforms on (a) physical health and (b) mental health.
This question was answered on 8th May 2018
The DWP and DHSC established the joint Work and Health Unit in 2015 to oversee the Government’s work and health agenda. Our ambition is that we develop a sustainable welfare and employment support system that operates in tandem with the health system and as part of strong wider local partnerships to move people into work when they are ready. The unit is made up of staff from both departments and is accountable to ministers from both departments, and they meet frequently to discuss welfare reform and the wider work and health agenda.
The DWP and DHSC established the joint Work and Health Unit in 2015 to oversee the Government’s work and health agenda. Our ambition is that we develop a sustainable welfare and employment support system that operates in tandem with the health system and as part of strong wider local partnerships to move people into work when they are ready. The unit is made up of staff from both departments and is accountable to ministers from both departments, and they meet frequently to discuss welfare reform and the wider work and health agenda.