Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Transform Decision Making programme was initiated.
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms
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, which aims to reset and re-balance the decision-making process to free up assessment provider capacity and improve decision quality.
The test forms part of the work of the Health Transformation Programme, which is a major government programme modernising the PIP service, and is therefore subject to programme governance.
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