Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 4 September 2025.
Mel Stride
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of levels of annually managed expenditure savings due to planned increases in the proportion of face to face (a) PIP and (b) Work Capability Assessments in each of the next five financial years.
Stephen Timms
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions
The department has not yet made an estimate of the impact on Annually Managed Expenditure of the planned increases in the proportion of face-to-face assessments for PIP and Work Capability Assessments.
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