Question follow-through · 109738
Personal Independence Payment: Learning Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the requiring claimants to score four points in a single daily living activity to be eligible for the Personal Independence Payment on
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 6 Feb 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the requiring claimants to score four points in a single daily living activity to be eligible for the Personal Independence Payment on
2 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Feb 2026
Answer published
As I set out to the House on 1 July 2025, the Government listened to concerns and withdrew its proposal to introduce an additional requirement to score a minimum of 4 points in a single activity to be eligible for the daily living element of PIP. Instead,...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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