Question follow-through · 60270

Personal Independence Payment: Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of cancer patients who will stop receiving personal independence payments following proposed welfare reforms.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
16 Jun 2025
Target answer date
18 Jun 2025
Answer
23 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of cancer patients who will stop receiving personal independence payments following proposed welfare reforms.

  2. 18 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper has been published here ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper’(opens in a new tab).Impacts of the proposed changes depend on many factors includi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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