Question follow-through · 139
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to guidance issued to staff regarding the Right to Try regulations, what checks are in place to ensure that an order made by a decision-maker for a new a) work capability assessment or b)
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 13 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2026 · 20 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to guidance issued to staff regarding the Right to Try regulations, what checks are in place to ensure that an order made by a decision-maker for a new a) work capability assessment or b)
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jun 2026
Answer published
This Government is committed to giving disabled people and people with health conditions the confidence that working will not trigger a reassessment and a potential loss of benefits. Under the Right to Try regulations, staff cannot order a new Work Capabi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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