Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 59340

Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

Tabled: 12 June 2025

Answered: 23 June 2025

Question

Yasmin Qureshi

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that Personal Independence Payment assessments make an adequate assessment of claimants’ (a) physical symptoms and (b) medical evidence and (c) other s

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

PIP assessors give due consideration to all available evidence when completing their advice to the Department. DWP decision makers also consider all available evidence when making entitlement decisions on PIP. The Department closely monitors all aspects o...

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