Question follow-through · 80503
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has issued guidance to Capita on routinely recording interviews for all Personal Independence Payment assessments; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of req
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 20 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has issued guidance to Capita on routinely recording interviews for all Personal Independence Payment assessments; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of req
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Oct 2025
Answer published
Currently, claimants can opt-in to having their Personal Independence Payment assessment recorded. Audio recording is available for face-to-face and telephone assessments with all the Department’s assessment providers. These arrangements are publicised on...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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