Question follow-through · 49660
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing people who accumulate points across multiple Personal Independence Payment activities, but do not score four points in any single activ
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 May 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing people who accumulate points across multiple Personal Independence Payment activities, but do not score four points in any single activ
8 May 2025
Target answer date
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8 May 2025
Answer published
PIP is an important, non-means tested benefit for disabled people and people with health conditions – regardless of whether they are in or out of work. However, the rate of increases in claims and expenditure is not sustainable and has outstripped the gro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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