Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether as part of the Timms Review his Department intends to make reductions in total PIP expenditure.

We have launched the Timms Review to ensure we have a system that supports disabled people to achieve better health, higher living standards and greater independence, including through employment.

The Review is being co-produced with disabled people, the organisations that represent them, carers, clinicians, experts, MPs and other stakeholders, so a wide range of views and voices are heard.

The group has established its ways of working, themes for the Review, launched a Call for Evidence, and outlined its varied approach to evidence gathering. It will continue to meet regularly over the course of this year to determine the Review's strategic direction, priorities and its recommendations. I cannot pre-empt the outcome of this work, but the Terms of Reference for the Review stipulate that “the Review will operate within the OBR’s projections for future PIP expenditure”.