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Personal Independence Payment Assessment Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the extent to which the Timms Review steering group includes people with recent lived experience of disability and of claiming Personal Independence Payment an

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
11 Mar 2026
Answer
13 Mar 2026 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the extent to which the Timms Review steering group includes people with recent lived experience of disability and of claiming Personal Independence Payment an

  2. 11 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 13 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    Almost all steering group members have lived experience of disability, and the group is diverse in terms of geography, ethnicity, and sexuality. However, no single group can be fully representative of the UK’s disabled community. This is why the steering ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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