Question follow-through · 43262
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how her Department will determine which claimants will be exempt from the new baseline expectation of engagement or work-related requirements once the Work Capability Assessment is scrapped.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how her Department will determine which claimants will be exempt from the new baseline expectation of engagement or work-related requirements once the Work Capability Assessment is scrapped.
29 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
We recognise that some people may not be able to engage with new baseline expectations. We are consulting on how we should determine who should be subject to attend meetings only rather than also have wider conditionality requirements, and how we should d...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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