Question follow-through · 46072
Personal Independence Payment: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that veterans with fluctuating (a) physical and (b) mental health conditions will not be disproportionately disadvantaged by proposed changes to Personal Independence
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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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
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that veterans with fluctuating (a) physical and (b) mental health conditions will not be disproportionately disadvantaged by proposed changes to Personal Independence
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment considers the needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability, not the health condition or disability itself. The impact in each case will depend on an individual’s circumstances. For those ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
1 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to Question 46071 on Personal Independence Payments: Veterans, when she plans to launch a wider review of the PIP assessment.
Pathways to Work: Public Consultation
2 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to Question 46071 on Personal Independence Payments: Veterans, whether her Department has invited specific organisations to participate in its Green Paper consult
Health and Safety: Cambridgeshire
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Control of Major Accident Hazard sites are there within Cambridgeshire; and in which year was each designated as such.
Winter Fuel Payment
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister of 21 May 2025, Official Report, column 1018, on changes to eligibility for the winter fuel allowance, when she expects the Office for Budge
Health and Safety
9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria the Health and Safety Executive uses to designate a location as a Control of Major Accident Hazard site.
Health and Safety
9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which body designates a location as a Control of Major Accident Hazard site.
Personal Independence Payment: Huntingdon
25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many PIP claimants in Huntingdon constituency will no longer qualify for the PIP daily living component under proposed changes to the qualifying criteria.
Personal Independence Payment Assessment Review: Veterans
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the forthcoming Timms Review will include the needs of veterans in its scope.
Employment and Vocational Guidance
2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress she has made in establishing the jobs and careers service.
Department for Work and Pensions: Sick Leave
2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many days were lost to sickness absence by civil servants in their Department (a) in total and (b) on average per employee between 5 July 2024 and 4 July 2025.
Workplace Pensions
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of restoring occupational pensions to people who withdrew them prior to the establishment of the Pension Protection Fund.
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Timms review on the Health Transformation Programme.