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Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure the accessibility of PIP assessment centres for people with disabilities.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
20 Nov 2024
Answer
21 Nov 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure the accessibility of PIP assessment centres for people with disabilities.

  2. 20 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) takes its responsibility to ensure all individuals have access to our services without disadvantage very seriously. We have a range of provisions in place to ensure assessments are accessible to all individuals, ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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