Question follow-through · 77349
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason his Department is prioritising Work Capability Assessments for new benefit claimants over reassessments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2025 · 37 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Social security and pensions
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Recorded timeline
15 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason his Department is prioritising Work Capability Assessments for new benefit claimants over reassessments.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Department prioritises Work Capability Assessments (WCA) for new benefit claims (and for individuals already receiving UC who join the UC health journey) in order to assess these individuals’ capability for work at the earliest opportunity. This is so...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Access to Work Programme: Visual Impairment
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