Written questions

Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit

Commons · Question 66137 · Tabled 9 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 17 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Damian Hinds

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7July to Question 63294 on Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit, whether projections of the number of claims for (a) PIP and (b) health components of Universal Cr

Answer

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 17 Jul 2025

DWP produces forecasts of benefit payments based on DWP assumptions agreed by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), alongside economic determinants, judgments and assumptions provided by the OBR. The number of PIP claimants is forecast by considerin...