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Social Security

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is being very generous in giving way. Is he aware of research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which quantifies the cost of being disabled at an additional £200 per week net of any extra benefits received, or £118 per week for someone in employment? Is he concerned, as many disability charities are, that the structure of the Government’s proposed incapacity benefit reforms seems to assume that some people are completely incapable of work? For many people with severe learning disabilities, working even one or two days a week could well be the way out of dependency and of regaining some self-respect.