Question follow-through · 85007

Disability: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of changes in mobility awards on (a) disabled people’s ability to travel to employment and (b) local labour markets.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 24 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 30 Oct 2025
Answer: 30 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

24 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of changes in mobility awards on (a) disabled people’s ability to travel to employment and (b) local labour markets.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
The government is committed to ensuring that Personal Independence Payment (PIP) remains a non-means tested cash benefit which is there for people in and out of work, now and into the future. The Timms Review aims to ensure we have a system that supports ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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