After publishing its Pathways to Work Green Paper earlier in the year, with plans to make cuts to disability and health-based benefits, the government has released their response to the public consultation on the green paper.
The Green Paper consultation ran from 18 March to 30 June 2025 and, in total, received 47,983 responses. It should be noted that half of the 22 reforms the government proposed in the green paper were not open to consultation at all.
Alongside the overwhelming number of responses opposing cuts to PIP eligibility, many submissions expressed strong support for the aims of the Access to Work programme and:
- increased funding for the NHS to reduce waiting times
- employment support conversations to be voluntary
- opposition to stopping the health element of universal credit being paid to people under 22 years of age
- opposition to time limited entitlement for a proposed new unemployment insurance, with many proposing that support for disabled people should be indefinite.
Read more about this on Disability Rights UK’s website.
