A question on #Employment tabled by Sir Mel Stride on 18-07-2025 has been answered by Sir Stephen Timms.

Heading: Employment
Question ID: 1824762
UIN: 69017
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-07-18
Asking Member ID: 3935
Asking Member display name: Sir Mel Stride
Asking Member handle: meljstride
Asking Member Twitter reference: @meljstride
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it has ever been her Department's policy to treat moving into employment as a change of circumstances which triggers a reassessment for (a) personal independence payment and (b) the work capabil
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Date answered: 2025-09-01
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Is holding answer: false
Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 163
Answering Member display name: Sir Stephen Timms
Answering Member handle: stephenctimms
Answering Member Twitter reference: @stephenctimms
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Answer text: Being in work, of itself, is not a change of circumstances for the purposes of triggering an award review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) or the Work Capability Assessment determination. We are legislating for this approach and believe it is the ri...
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Answering body ID: 29
Answering body name: Department for Work and Pensions
Tweeted: true