Question follow-through · 40560
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people reliant on Personal Independence Payments to access employment opportunities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people reliant on Personal Independence Payments to access employment opportunities.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 24 March 2025 to Question UIN39344.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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