PIP and ESA Assessments inquiry

Inquiry by the Work and Pensions Committee, 13 September 2017 to 5 November 2019. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 4th Report - PIP and ESA assessments: claimant experiences (8 February 2018)
• 7th Report - PIP and ESA assessments (14 February 2018)
• 8th Special Report - PIP and ESA assessments: Government Response to the Committee’s Seventh Report of 2017–19 (23 April 2018)
• Easy read: 8th Special Report - PIP and ESA assessments: Government Response to the Committee’s Seventh Report of 2017–19 (23 April 2018)
• Government response to the PIP and ESA assessments claimant experiences report (14 September 2018)

Evidence sessions

• 22 November 2017: Yolanda Barker, PIP applicant, Amanda Browning, PIP and ESA applicant, Denise Martin, PIP and ESA applicant, Natalie McMinn, PIP and ESA applicant, Thomas O'Dell, PIP and ESA applicant, Susie Lithman-Romeo, Speech-to-text ReporterDavid Bryceland, Project Manager, Oxfordshire Mind, Gary Edwards, Manager, Southampton Advice and Representation Centre, Kayleigh Nor-Val, Team Leader and Specialist Welfare Benefit Caseworker, Citizens Advice, Martin Richards, Lead Welfare Advisor, Involve Northwest
• 6 December 2017: Simon Freeman, Managing Director, Dr Ian Gargan, Chief Medical Officer, Capita Personal Independence Payments, David Haley, Chief Executive and Dr Barrie McKillop, Clinical Director, Atos Independent Assessment Services; Dr Paul Williams, Programme Director and Leslie Wolfe, General Manager, Global Health, Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA) MAXIMUS (at 10.15am).
• 11 December 2017: Anna Bird, Executive Director, Policy and Research, Scope, Victoria Holloway, Public Affairs Manager, Sense and Co-Chair, Disability Benefits Consortium, Kayley Hignell, Head of Policy, Citizen’s Advice, and Rob Holland, Public Affairs Manager, Mencap and Co-Chair, Disability Benefits Consortium
• 11 December 2017: Anna Bird, Executive Director, Policy and Research, Scope, Victoria Holloway, Public Affairs Manager, Sense and Co-Chair, Disability Benefits Consortium, Kayley Hignell, Head of Policy, Citizen’s Advice, Rob Holland, Public Affairs Manager, Mencap and Co-Chair, Disability Benefits Consortium
• 20 December 2017: Paul Gray CB, Leader of the Independent Reviews of PIP and Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee, Department for Work and Pensions, and Dr Paul Litchfield OBE, Leader of the 2013 and 2014 Independent Reviews of the ESA Work Capability Assessment; Sarah Newton MP, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, Janice Smethurst, Director for Contracted Health and Employment Services Directorate and James Wolfe, Director for Disability Employment and Support, Department for Work and Pensions (at 10.00am).