Question follow-through · 41133

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of PIP recipients were in some form of (a) work and (b) training on 25 March 2025.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
25 Mar 2025
Target answer date
1 Apr 2025
Answer
1 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of PIP recipients were in some form of (a) work and (b) training on 25 March 2025.

  2. 1 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    You can find the proportion of PIP recipients in employment in the evidence pack that was provided alongside the ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper’, which shows that 17% of PIP claimants were in employmen...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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