Source · Select Committees · Work and Pensions Committee
Recommendation 11
11
Explain safeguarding assessment of UC/PIP Bill and publish impact on disability benefit flows.
Recommendation
We call on the Government to explain in its response to our report what assessment it made of the safeguarding implications of the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill before it was introduced to Parliament. We also recommend that it publish as soon as possible an assessment of the impact that a more disability friendly labour market and additional NHS capacity, as well as longer-term improvements in population health, could have on rates of disability and incapacity benefit on and off- flows. (Recommendation, Paragraph 104) Other reforms to health-related benefits
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 23 October 2025. Response attribution to this recommendation has not been verified. Read the response document ↗