Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 119175

Personal Independence Payment Assessment Review

Tabled: 9 March 2026
Answered: 13 March 2026

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

LabourPoole

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the extent to which the Timms Review steering group includes people with recent lived experience of disability and of claiming Personal Independence Payment an

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
Almost all steering group members have lived experience of disability, and the group is diverse in terms of geography, ethnicity, and sexuality. However, no single group can be fully representative of the UK’s disabled community. This is why the steering ...

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