Question follow-through · 99938
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how he plans to reduce disability benefits by up to £580 million a year.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how he plans to reduce disability benefits by up to £580 million a year.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
We are reducing the frequency of Personal Independence award reviews to deliver more WCA re-assessments after they were stopped during Covid-19. We will also significantly increase the share of face-to-face assessments, enabling assessors to better unders...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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