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HANSARDDraft Chemicals (Health and Safety) and Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment Etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I was offering some reassurance about the REACH regulations. Although they are not what we are here to talk about today, I was addressing those concerns.13 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI can reassure the hon. Gentleman that that work is all under way. There have been several independent reviews of PIP and ESA, including one by the Select Committee on Work and…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI thank my hon. Friend for his long-standing and passionate championship of the vulnerable people in his constituency and across our country. We have listened very carefully to…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI was not in Prime Minister’s questions to hear that particular example, but of course I will follow it up with great urgency. It is not acceptable for people to have appointments…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI thank my hon. Friend for that very important question. She is absolutely right about the absolute commitment of my colleagues in the DWP to ensure that the Scottish Government…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleThe right hon. Lady raises an important point about reassessments. Through a series of measures that we have taken this year, and through the ones that we have announced, far…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI very much thank my right hon. Friend for his contribution in the Chamber today and for all the work that he did when he had the privilege of holding this office. He is…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI will take that suggestion away and see whether we can collect that data and whether it is possible to provide it on a constituency basis. I challenge people who say that the…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI thank the hon. Gentleman for his questions. I should like to reassure him that I do indeed work with my opposite number in the Scottish Government, and that we are working…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI thank my right hon. Friend for his question. This builds on some of the work he started when he was in the Department. It is very much based on listening to people and their…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI think I can go one better than that, because I would like to invite my hon. Friend in to meet me and go through his paper with me, given all the hard work that he has put in, to…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI fear I will test your patience, of Mr Speaker, if I try to answer all of those questions at once, but I will do my best. I welcome the hon. Lady’s tone and her welcome for the…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleYesterday the Secretary of State provided the House with a written statement, and delivered a speech to Scope that included, among other announcements, an announcement about…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question, because it gives me a wonderful opportunity to pay tribute to the fantastic, hard-working, dedicated and compassionate DWP staff, both…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI really would have hoped that, today of all days, the hon. Lady could have found it in her heart to welcome the changes that have been asked for by so many people inside and…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleThe hon. Lady makes an important point. We know that too many people have been missing out on billions of pounds’-worth of benefits. That is why I hope she will welcome the fact…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleIt is not true at all that benefits for disabled people have been frozen. This House recently uprated those benefits by 2.4%, and this year we will spend £4 billion more than we…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI pass on my sincere condolences to the hon. Lady’s constituent. Of course I will sit down with her to review the case in great detail, because it is a very, very sad to hear what…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleI point out gently to the hon. Lady that 8% of people who apply for ESA go to appeal, and 4% are overturned. I do not want that to be 2%, 1% or 0.1%; I want us to get the decision…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Social Security and Employment Support for Disabled PeopleInevitably, we want to ensure that we make the process better. Each time I come to the Chamber, I describe the steps that we are taking. Specifically on the case of people with…06 Mar 2019