We asked the Department whether it was confident that it could deliver the benefits and savings expected from the Programme. The Department told us that it was confident that it could deliver the financial savings, as “the system costs a lot to deliver, so small improvement can save quite a lot of money”. But it recognised that the success of the programme depended on ‘the [wider] savings and benefits that come from changing people’s lives for good’, which was “not just supporting some of the most vulnerable people in our country to live independently, but helping and encouraging those who can to live an independent life, which involves some ability to work”.14 Developing the health assessment service