Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will place in the Library copies of assessments conducted by her Department relating to the mental well-being of applicants during and/or immediately after the work capability assessment process in the last three years.

The Department has not completed any such assessments within the timeframe, though in the latest official DWP survey, 82 per cent of Employment and Support Allowance claimants said that they were satisfied with their overall experience of the benefit journey: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-claimant-service-and-experience-survey-2016-to-2017.

As well as this a number of safeguards were built into the Work Capability Assessment from the outset, and we have introduced further improvements to try and ensure that people who have mental health conditions are treated fairly and sensitively.