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Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

Asked by Steve DarlingLiberal DemocratDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 18 June 2026UIN 6891

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which (a) external stakeholders and (b) disabled people’s organisations, have been consulted on the Transform Decision Making programme.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

DWP is running a small-scale trial of a transformed decision-making approach within the Health Transformation Programme's new Health Assessment Service. The Health Transformation Programme regularly engages with a wide range of external stakeholders. The Programme has engaged with its national stakeholder forum and with the Timms Review to inform them about the testing of a transformed decision making approach.

We have provided a list of the members of the Health Transformation Programme’s national stakeholder group.

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