In August 2015, he identified as on Iain Duncan Smith to resign as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions after it was noted that countless numbers of disabled folks had died right after currently being observed in shape to work by Work Capability Assessments (instituted in 2008) involving 2011 and 2014, though this was challenged by the government and by FullFact who claimed that the determine provided people who experienced died and hence.