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.

answeredChristine JardineDepartment for Work and Pensions

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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

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Recorded timeline

  1. 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. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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 ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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