Some 2.5 million working age adults are currently considered unfit to work, and the number is set to grow.
Mr Stride said that people would be "given the right support and opportunities to move off benefits and towards the jobs market".Ministers think the push could get hundreds of thousands more people back into work, filling gaps in the jobs market and helping boost the company. "This has opened up more opportunities for disabled people and those with health conditions to start, stay and to succeed in work."He added: "The Work Capability Assessment doesn't reflect how someone with a disability or health condition might be able to work from home, yet we know many disabled people do just that.
Mr Stride said a consultation on the changes would run for eight weeks, and that the government hopes they could come into force by 2025. But disability charities warned that some people could make their conditions worse by having to get a job. Sarah White, head of policy at national disability charity Sense, meanwhile warned the plans could "cause huge anxiety for disabled people up and down the country".