Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability green paper, published on 29 April 2024, if his Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of the existing mandatory reconsideration process as part of its potential reforms.

Modernising Support for Independent Living: The Health and Disability Green Paper explores changes that the government could make to the current PIP system to ensure support is targeted where it is most needed. These options include:

• Making changes to eligibility criteria for PIP.
• Redesigning the PIP assessment to better target it towards the individual needs of disabled people and people with long-term health conditions.
• Reforming the PIP assessment so that it is more linked to a person’s condition.

Mandatory reconsideration does not feature in the Green Paper.