I was pleased to take questions in the House recently in my role as Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work at the Department for Work and Pensions.
Specifically, our new 'Health and Disability White Paper' will remove barriers between disabled people and work opportunities – scrapping the Work Capability Assessment. This will help more disabled people to start, stay and succeed in work, and ultimately live more independent and fulfilling lives, and it was particularly useful to be able to set out our plans and answer various questions on them.
I fully believe that replacing the Work Capability Assessment is the right thing to do; it recognises that we want to concentrate more on what people can do, rather than on what they can't, and doing so on a tailored, individual basis, but with that important welfare safety net always in place.
I also answered various questions on a whole range of other issues across my ministerial brief and you can watch the session, here: https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/166e51c6-f046-4443-9fb8-a4bc0ebad9fc?in=14:39:13