Question follow-through · 59663
Personal Independence Payment: Multiple Sclerosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people with multiple sclerosis who are expected to lose eligibility for Personal Independence Payment under the proposed reforms to the assessment crit
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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 recent estimate she has made of the number of people with multiple sclerosis who are expected to lose eligibility for Personal Independence Payment under the proposed reforms to the assessment crit
16 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer to Question UIN 58296 on 16th June 2025.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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