Question follow-through · 13503
Personal Independence Payment: Patients
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals have had personal independence payments withdrawn after entering hospital care for more than 28 days in the last four years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 15 Nov 2024 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Carers' Benefits: Personal Independence Payment · 19 Nov 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals have had personal independence payments withdrawn after entering hospital care for more than 28 days in the last four years.
13 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Nov 2024
Answer published
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. Suspensions of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for admission to hospital are combined in the PIP Computer System with admissions to hospices and ca...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Personal Independence Payment: Patients
15 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2024 to Question 13503 on Personal Independence Payment: Patients, how many individuals have had personal independence payments withdrawn after entering (a) hospita
Carers' Benefits: Personal Independence Payment
19 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what financial support is available to carers who incur additional living costs supporting people whose Personal Independence Payments are stopped upon entering hospital as long-term in-patients.
Employment: Older People
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Employment: Older People
10 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Minister for Women and Equalities office on supporting women over the age of 50 years old back into employment.
Department for Work and Pensions: Correspondence
11 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will continue to respond to constituency casework inquires from hon. Members in writing.
Social Security Benefits: Disability
25 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the current average processing time is for Mandatory Reconsiderations for (a) Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children and (b) other disability-related benefits.
Disability Living Allowance: Children
25 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he is taking steps to help decrease the amount of time to assess Mandatory Reconsiderations for Disability Living Allowance for children.