Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Baroness Hoey (Labour), on Thursday, 1 July 2010, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 98 members in total.

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DISABILITY LIVING ALLOWANCE

That this House urges the Government to recognise that the intention behind disability living allowance was not to award benefit based on a particular disabling condition but on the extent to which a severely disabled person has personal care or mobility needs as a result of living with their disability; understands that medical assessments and questionnaires cannot in practice be worded perfectly to reflect the legislation and case law; acknowledges that it is the role of the decision maker to determine a person's eligibility, based on all the relevant evidence, both medical and non-medical; considers that the administrative cost of medical assessments could be better used to make the benefit application process easier for disabled people to complete and to better support the decision maker; and calls on the Government to re-consider its decision to introduce medical assessments for new and existing claimants of disability living allowance.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

393 

Session

2010-12

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Alan Meale

Kelvin Hopkins

Ian Jnr Paisley

Jonathan Edwards

Subjects

Disability living allowance Medical examinations

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk