Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her Department's policy for all claimants to receive a copy of their personal independence payment assessment report.

The Government’s response to recommendation 4a from the second independent review of the Personal Independence Payment assessment, published on 18 December 2017 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-pip-assessment-second-independent-review-government-response), sets out the Government’s position in relation to providing assessment reports to claimants. The response made clear that claimants can request a copy of their report at any time following their assessment, that we would not provide the reports to all claimants automatically, but we will consider how we can improve our communications so that claimants know they can request a copy of their assessment report.