Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the policy paper entitled Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper, published on 15 March 2023, what recent estimate he has made of when his Department will complete its assessment of the feasibility of sharing assessment reports with people making a claim before a decision is made.
We have begun to test the feasibility of sharing assessment reports with people before a decision is made. This will offer claimants the opportunity to clarify evidence so that we can make the right decision as early as possible.
We will consider findings from this initial testing to determine next steps.