Question follow-through · 60526
Unemployment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support disabled people who (a) are too ill to work and (b) score less than 3 points under Pathways to Work.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 17 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
17 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support disabled people who (a) are too ill to work and (b) score less than 3 points under Pathways to Work.
19 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
We have committed to introduce a new requirement that claimants must score a minimum of four points in at least one daily living activity to be eligible for the daily living component of PIP. This will target PIP at people who have a higher level of funct...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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