Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether GP’s are required when recommending a claimant has home assessment for the purpose of a benefit claim to follow her Department‘s required and accepted terminology; and what guidance her Department has issued to GPs on statements her Department accepts in agreeing to grant a home assessment.

DWP has not issued any guidance to GPs on the subject of providing letters to support requests for home visits from assessment providers for their patients.