The Commons Work and Pensions committee has written to Stephen Timms asking to be told:
- What the arrangements are for the co-production of the Timms review?
- How will the Timms review interface with the Disability Advisory Group?
- Who will be involved in the Timms review and will they influence its terms of reference?
- Are there going to be cuts to the overall PIP budget as a result of the review?
- Even if there aren’t cuts to the overall PIP budget, will it result in cuts to some disabled people’s PIP.
- When will regulations for the new Right To Try Guarantee be laid?
The committee have asked for a response by 17 September.
Here at Benefits and Work, we strongly suspect that the response from Timms will be late, dismissive and will contain almost no concrete information at all.
This is particularly the case as we strongly suspect that Timms doesn’t know the answers to half of these questions himself.
