Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Written Statement of 5 March 2019, HC WS1376, if she will place in the Library a copy of the contract terms for the extension of the Health and Disability Assessment Service.

The negotiations to extend the Health and Disability Assessment Service contract for 17 months until 31 July 2021 are still to be concluded. There are currently no plans to publish a redacted version of the contract which supports this extension in the House of Commons library.