Question follow-through · 61329
Personal Independence Payment: Arthritis
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support people with arthritis who may be impacted by changes to Personal Independence Payments in Yeovil constituency.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 19 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support people with arthritis who may be impacted by changes to Personal Independence Payments in Yeovil constituency.
23 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2025
Answer published
We have committed in the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill 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. ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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