Question follow-through · 51040
Personal Independence Payment: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department’s planned reforms to Personal Independence Payments on the mental health of people with disabilities.
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
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 16 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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
These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.
Recorded timeline
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department’s planned reforms to Personal Independence Payments on the mental health of people with disabilities.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
We are taking action to address anxiety about the sustainability of the funding of PIP, focusing the benefit more on those with the greatest needs, by introducing a new eligibility requirement. The change to the PIP eligibility criteria will mean that peo...
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: Arthritis
19 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support people with arthritis who may be impacted by changes to Personal Independence Payments in Yeovil constituency.
Personal Independence Payment: ME/CFS
19 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome impacted by changes to Personal Independence Payments.
Pensions: Consumer Information
25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure pension holders in Yeovil constituency receive (a) up-to-date and (b) easily accessible online valuations from their pension providers.
Pensions: Consumer Information
25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to address the barriers faced by pension holders in Yeovil constituency seeking to access their financial data from private pension providers.
Pensions: Disclosure of Information
25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to increase transparency in the private pension sector.
State Retirement Pensions: Rural Areas
25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the weekly State Pension rate for people in (a) rural communities and (b) Yeovil constituency.
Poverty: Children
25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to reduce the rate of child poverty in Yeovil constituency.
Pensions Ombudsman: Yeovil
1 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent trends in the number of referrals to the Pensions Ombudsman in Yeovil constituency.
Pensions Ombudsman: Yeovil
1 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help reduce waiting times for referrals to the Pensions Ombudsman for people in Yeovil constituency.
Employment: Yeovil
15 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve local job opportunities for people in Yeovil constituency.
Musculoskeletal Disorders: Yeovil
5 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support people living with (a) arthritis and (b) other musculoskeletal conditions to (i) return to and (ii) enter into work in Yeovil constituency.
Access to Work Programme: Yeovil
5 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taken to reduce the waiting times for a decision on Access to Work claims from Yeovil constituency.