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Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it remains her Department's policy to begin the rollout of the abolition of the Work Capability Assessment and the categories of Limited Capability for Work and Limited Capability for Work Relat
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 28 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it remains her Department's policy to begin the rollout of the abolition of the Work Capability Assessment and the categories of Limited Capability for Work and Limited Capability for Work Relat
5 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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5 Mar 2025
Answer published
We’ve been clear that WCA isn’t working and needs to be reformed or replaced. We are working to develop proposals for reform to the system of health and disability benefits and will set them out in a green paper in the spring. As part of the Get Britain W...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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