| Heading: |
Personal Independence Payment: Reform |
| Question ID: |
1791658 |
| UIN: |
43571 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5040 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Liz Jarvis
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| Asking Member handle: |
lizjarvisuk
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@lizjarvisuk
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed reforms to Personal Independence Payments on blind and partially sighted people. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Answer text: |
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is assessed on needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability rather than the health condition or disability itself. Individuals can be impacted by their health conditions in different ways and the assess... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |