Question follow-through · 100647
Personal Independence Payment: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that future reforms to Personal Independence Payment are accompanied by the publication of impact assessments on (a) mental health and (b) poverty.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2026 · 43 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that future reforms to Personal Independence Payment are accompanied by the publication of impact assessments on (a) mental health and (b) poverty.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2026
Answer published
We have launched the Timms Review to ensure Personal Independence Payment is fair and fit for the future. To ensure lived experience is at the heart of its work, the Review will be co-produced with disabled people, the organisations that represent them, a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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