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Personal Independence Payment

Asked by Sir Mel StrideConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 25 October 2024UIN 9704

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 6515 on Social Security Benefits: Disability, what steps she plans to take to reform Personal Independence Payments; and what assessment she has made of the factors driving the rising (a) caseloads and (b) expenditure on that benefit.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

We will be considering our own response to social security in due course, informed by a range of evidence. This Government is committed to championing the rights of disabled people and to the principle of working with them, so that their views and voices will be at the heart of all that we do.

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