Question follow-through · 51421

Students: Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, on students

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
12 May 2025
Target answer date
14 May 2025
Answer
20 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, on students

  2. 14 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 May 2025

    Answer published

    No assessment has been made. The Department does not hold data about the student status of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants. Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper has been published here ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming B...

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