Question follow-through · 2651
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 22 October 2025 to Question 80479 on Personal Independence Payment, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of increasing decision making resource on reducing
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 18 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2026
- Answer
- 27 May 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 22 October 2025 to Question 80479 on Personal Independence Payment, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of increasing decision making resource on reducing
20 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2026
Answer published
From October 2025 onwards, the Department has cleared more PIP Mandatory Reconsiderations than it has received. This coincides with an increase in decision-making resource. The latest published statistics indicate this has had an effect on median clearanc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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