Question follow-through · 33329
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to create effective information sharing processes with the Department for Health and Social Care so that people with a permanent disability are no longer required to
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to create effective information sharing processes with the Department for Health and Social Care so that people with a permanent disability are no longer required to
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2025
Answer published
Personal Independence Payment, the main disability benefit, is based on an assessment of the customer’s needs and not whether they have a particular condition or not. Award reviews are a key feature of these benefits to ensure that the level of benefit ma...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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