Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment includes participation from people with (a) current experience of claiming disability benefits and (b) high support or communication needs.

The Timms Review is being co-produced by disabled people, the organisations that represent them and other experts. The steering group is committed to ensuring that the Review is informed by a broad range of voices and experiences and to making engagement as accessible as possible.

The steering group has agreed to use a mix of approaches combining lived experience, expert insight, existing research, new quantitative data, workshops, and deliberative events across the UK to gather evidence. The steering group will share more details on these as the review progresses.

The Review has so far launched a Call for Evidence to gather input from individuals and organisations, with a full suite of accessible versions, including British Sign Language, Braille, Easy Read, Large Print, Audio, and Welsh versions.