Employment and Support Allowance and Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

(asked on 30th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Seventh Report of the Work and Pensions Committee, PIP and ESA assessments, Session 2017–19, HC 829, published on 14 February 2018, whether her Department implemented the recommendation in that report to commission and publish independent research on the impact of application and assessment for PIP and ESA on claimant health.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 9th July 2021

The Department did implement this Work and Pensions Committee recommendation and has commissioned independent research to understand claimants’ experience of completing the PIP and ESA questionnaires to identify improvements. It will be published alongside the forthcoming Health and Disability Green Paper.

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