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Personal Independence Payment Assessment Review

Asked by Liz JarvisLiberal DemocratDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 7 September 2025UIN 71568

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether (a) disabled people and (b) carers will be consulted on the outcomes of the Timms review.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

The Timms review will be co-produced with disabled people, the organisations that represent them, clinicians, experts, MPs and other stakeholders, so a wide range of views and voices are heard. This will include carers' organisations so that the voices of unpaid carers are heard.

We are committed to concluding the review by Autumn 2026 and reporting outcomes to the House in a ministerial Oral Statement. We have committed to a general debate on this, in Government time. Any legislation to implement the outcomes of the review will not be brought forward until that has happened.

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