- Question by: Onkar Sahota
- Meeting date: 13 March 2013
This is about 'bedroom tax'. I do welcome the retreat made by the Secretary of State [Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions] yesterday on three issues. However, I am still concerned - and I am talking as a practising doctor - that I, and my colleagues who see patients, who come to us for letters of exemption where there are adults who have problems or even children who have problems which are not covered by the Disability Act. How responsive are the local authorities on making these exemptions to patients who have genuine grounds supported...
