Question follow-through · 59340
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that Personal Independence Payment assessments make an adequate assessment of claimants’ (a) physical symptoms and (b) medical evidence and (c) other s
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that Personal Independence Payment assessments make an adequate assessment of claimants’ (a) physical symptoms and (b) medical evidence and (c) other s
16 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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23 Jun 2025
Answer published
PIP assessors give due consideration to all available evidence when completing their advice to the Department. DWP decision makers also consider all available evidence when making entitlement decisions on PIP. The Department closely monitors all aspects o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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