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HANSARDBritish Sign Language Report 2025-26This ministerial statement is also available in British Sign Language here at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUrDclFi9M01 This Government recognise the need for continuous…15 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportMy hon. Friend raises an extremely important point, which is at the heart of the Keep Britain Working review that Sir Charlie Mayfield is leading at the moment. He produced his…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportI am certainly keen to avoid stigmatising anybody. If my right hon. Friend looks at the interim report, he will see that there is quite a lot of evidence specifically on that…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportI am very grateful to my hon. Friend for his invitation. If he would like to drop me a line, I will see how my diary is looking in the next couple of months.09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportWith permission, I would like to make a statement on the Timms review of the personal independence payment—to make it fair and fit for the future, both for the disabled people who…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportThe hon. Gentleman has set out some trenchant criticisms of the system that his party set up and left behind, and the question in everybody’s mind is: why did the Conservatives…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I think we have an appointment in the diary to talk about the issues that he has raised about his constituency, and his constituent who has…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his support for this review, and for his tribute to those who have put a great deal of work into it already, and who will be putting in a…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportWe are doing quite a lot of work in the Department specifically on assistive technology. In fact, the Secretary of State was at a roundtable recently with representatives of the…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportI think we can take the hon. Member’s question as a tacit recognition that in 14 years the previous Government should have done something to fix these problems. The steering group…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportYes, I can give my hon. Friend that assurance. I pay tribute to her work as the chair of the APPG on disability, and I am grateful to her for her welcome to us the other week. She…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportYes, I shall look out for the right hon. Gentleman’s letter and I hope he will receive a reply in short order. He is right that the system needs to work well for people to be…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportMy hon. Friend makes a very important point, and she is absolutely right. It has certainly been very clear in our review that there is concern among disabled people about some of…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportOur objective must be both the things that the hon. Lady refers to. We need a system that works well for disabled people and that helps to remove unnecessary barriers that too…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportI am very pleased to be able to pay tribute to my hon. Friend for her amendment. As she rightly says, that was what took us down the road of co-production, which I think has been…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportThe hon. Gentleman is right to highlight the importance of language. This is a topic that the organisation Turn2us has been thinking about lately. One of the things that I am…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportIt is certainly our objective that the dehumanising aspects of the current system—he describes an example very well—should not be a feature of the future system. That is the clear…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportThe hon. Gentleman raises an important point. This benefit is there to contribute to the additional costs of disability. Too often, what has happened—my hon. Friend the Member for…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportWe certainly do not want to let any opportunities from the review pass; it is a one-off groundbreaking review, and we want to make the most of it. This morning, I had a good…09 Jul 2026HANSARD Timms Review: Interim ReportI am grateful to my hon. Friend for her help in the discussions and her continuing interest in the review. Criticisms of the way that the current assessment process handles…09 Jul 2026