Overview
- The Department for Work and Pensions named Dr Clenton Farquharson CBE and Sharon Brennan as co-chairs alongside Minister Sir Stephen Timms.
- Recruitment has opened for a steering group that will be majority disabled people or representatives of their organisations.
- The review will scrutinise PIP’s daily living and mobility components, the assessment descriptors and points, and the benefit’s role as a gateway to wider support.
- Officials have begun exploring digital transfer of NHS medical evidence, with claimant consent, to reduce paperwork and speed up decisions.
- Ministers say no eligibility or assessment changes will be made until an interim update and a final report by autumn 2026, with PIP currently supporting about 3.7–3.8 million people in England and Wales and around 39% on five-year-plus awards.