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Musculoskeletal Conditions

I am grateful for that intervention, because I did not realise that that was the number. I am encouraged to think that it is worth hon. Members continuing to take the matter up with Atos and the Department. There is nothing more distressing than seeing someone with a genuine, very long-term condition being put through unnecessary appeals. I know of one case when that happened once and then again the following year, and the person concerned won the appeals.