Question follow-through · 70858
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the stigma around benefit assessments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2025 · 9 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
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the stigma around benefit assessments.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Sept 2025
Answer published
Following the Pathways to Work Green Paper consultation, we have launched our wider review of the PIP assessment. At the heart of this will be coproduction with disabled people, the organisations that represent them, and MPs so their views and voices are ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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