Question follow-through · 111608
Work Capability Assessment: Immunosuppression
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposed reforms to Work Capability Assessments on severely immunocompromised people who are recovering from (a) stem cell transplants, (b)
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 26 Feb 2026 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposed reforms to Work Capability Assessments on severely immunocompromised people who are recovering from (a) stem cell transplants, (b)
12 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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26 Feb 2026
Answer published
The Pathways to Work Green Paper outlined our plan to end the link between capacity to work and additional financial support and the binary categorisation of claimants as “can or can’t work” by abolishing the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). Instead, any...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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