WCA outcome bias - Atos

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Please kindly provide documents on file such as letters, memos, contract extracts sent from your department to WCA assessor Atos making it clear whether (or not) you prefer them to recommend your decision maker finds claimants fit for work.

We're interested in documents which your assessment company could rightly or wrongly perceive as desired outcome bias.

Yours faithfully,

Amanda Hart
for Stop UK lies and Corruption.

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S. Gwilliam left an annotation ()

Amanda,

You may want to ammend your request, as it stands you have given the DWP an easy get out.

ATOS have not done any WCAs since 2015. All WCAs, for both ESA and UC, are now carried out by CHDA (Maximus).
I would have thought an organisation such as yours would have known that?

Amanda Hart left an annotation ()

We are aware of this S. Gwilliam. It doesn't change the nature of our request.

no-reply@dwp.ecase.co.uk on behalf of DWP Health Services Correspondence, Department for Work and Pensions

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Dear Amanda Hart,

I am writing in response to your request for information, received 8th
December.

Yours sincerely,

DWP Central FoI Team