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Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Transform Decision Making programme was initiated.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
9 Jun 2026
Answer
10 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Transform Decision Making programme was initiated.

  2. 9 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    We began testing a transformed decision making approach on 16 March 2026 in postcodes comprising around 1% of all national PIP assessment volume. On 1 June 2026 we expanded this to around 4% of all PIP assessment volume. This is an operational change, whi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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