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Personal Independence Payment Assessment Review

Asked by Kim JohnsonLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 21 July 2025UIN 68521

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to include the PCS trade union in the co-production process for the Timms review of the Personal Independence Payment assessment.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

The Terms of Reference for this review were announced in a Written Ministerial Statement from the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on Monday 30 June, and you can find them here – Welfare Reform - Hansard - UK Parliament. They will be updated shortly.

We are committed to co-producing the review with disabled people, the organisations that represent them, clinicians, experts, Members of Parliament and other stakeholders, to ensure that a wide range of views and voices are heard. We will engage widely over the summer to design the process for the work of the review and consider how it can best be co-produced to ensure that expertise from a range of different perspectives is drawn upon.

We are currently planning what engagement will look like and will share more information in due course.

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