Question follow-through · 107363
Personal Independence Payment: Sodium Valproate
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether Personal Independence Payment assessors receive specialist training on disabilities caused by sodium valproate.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether Personal Independence Payment assessors receive specialist training on disabilities caused by sodium valproate.
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities caused by sodium valproate receive high-quality, objective, and accurate assessments. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments are functional ass...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Migraines: Employment
23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of migraine on levels of sickness absence, labour market participation and economic inactivity.
Migraines: Employment
23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people living with migraine will be considered in the delivery of policies to support people with long-term conditions to remain in or return to work.
Housing Benefit
6 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance has the Department issued to local authorities on the mechanisms for scrutinise Housing Benefit claims in the period prior to the implementation of the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversi
Housing Benefit
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance has the Department provided to local authorities on the mechanisms they should be using to scrutinise Housing Benefit claims in the period prior to the implementation of the Supported Hous
Housing Benefit
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance has his Department given to local authorities on the mechanisms they should be using to scrutinise Housing Benefit claims in the period prior to the implementation of the Supported Housing