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Written Question
Personal Independence Payment
Thursday 3rd July 2025

Asked by: Natasha Irons (Labour - Croydon East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 61354 on Personal Independence Payment, if she will set out the methodology used to estimate the number of claimants who would be subject to the benefits cap.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

As I made clear in my statement to the House, Hansard, 1 July, col 219, any changes to PIP eligibility will come after a comprehensive review of the benefit, which I am leading, and which will be co-produced with disabled people, the organisations that represent them, clinicians, experts, MPs and other stakeholders, so a wide range of views and voices are heard. This review aims to ensure that the PIP assessment is fair and fit for the future. The review is expected to conclude in autumn 2026.

For the previous proposals’ impact on the benefit cap, administrative datasets from August 2024 showing the number of households exempt from the benefit cap as a result of PIP receipt were used to estimate the proportion of households that would become affected by the benefit cap if they lost their entitlement to PIP. This was then applied to the estimated volume of PIP claimants that would be affected by the 4-point policy that do not receive the Mobility component of PIP. Implicit in this assumption was that exemptions from the benefit cap are equally likely among those not having a 4-point score as those who have one.

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Natasha Irons (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 326 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 333 Noes - 168
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One of 327 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 338 Noes - 79
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Jul 2025
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Natasha Irons (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 326 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 333 Noes - 168
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Vote Tally: Ayes - 338 Noes - 79
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One of 325 Labour No votes vs 42 Labour Aye votes
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Natasha Irons (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 333 Labour Aye votes vs 49 Labour No votes
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