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Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 6515 on Social Security Benefits: Disability, what steps she plans to take to reform Personal Independence Payments; and what assessment she has mad

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
21 Oct 2024
Answer
25 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 6515 on Social Security Benefits: Disability, what steps she plans to take to reform Personal Independence Payments; and what assessment she has mad

  2. 21 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    We will be considering our own response to social security in due course, informed by a range of evidence. This Government is committed to championing the rights of disabled people and to the principle of working with them, so that their views and voices ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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Pension Credit

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Pension Credit

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Members: Correspondence

23 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to respond to the letter from the Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee entitled The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payments Regulations 2024: letter to the Secretary of State for Work

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Winter Fuel Payment

23 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she made a request to the Social Security Advisory Committee to expedite their consideration of the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payments Regulations 2024 before she invoked the urgency provision.

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Winter Fuel Payment

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Access to Work Programme

24 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral answer of 7 October 2024 from the Minister for Employment, Official Report, column 6, what changes have been made to the Access to Work Scheme since the beginning of this Parl

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Work Capability Assessment

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Universal Credit

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Work Capability Assessment

28 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Tables in the document entitled Work Capability Assessment Reform: update to estimated number of claimants affected, dated 18 April 2024, what her Department's estimate is of the n

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Employment and Support Allowance

2 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of new style Employment and Support Allowance claims have been in payment for at least (a) three, (b) six, (c) 12, and (d) 18 months for (i) the Work Related Activity Group and (ii) the

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Social Security Benefits: Reform

2 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department's proposed reforms to contributory out of work benefits are expected to reduce contributory benefits as a proportion of overall welfare expenditure.

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Social Security Benefits

2 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her Department's policy that people with (a) more than £16,000 in savings, (b) a full National Insurance record and (c) a work-limiting health condition will not be eligible for support th