Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress she has made in evaluating the findings of her Department’s pilot on video recording personal independence payment assessments.

The evaluation of the VR pilot has shown the importance of improving trust and transparency in the assessment process, and DWP remains committed to this. We had begun work to develop an approach to provide consistency for claimants across audio recording of Work Capability Assessments and PIP assessments. However, due to the impact of Covid-19, staff across DWP have been redeployed to support claimants and as a result, this work has been paused.