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HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceI am grateful to my hon. Friend for bringing his experience to this debate. I can absolutely give him the reassurance he seeks.27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceI will gladly meet my hon. Friend and look forward to the meeting.27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceI suppose the hon. Gentleman has no choice but to attempt to defend his party’s record in government. As I have referred to already, the Conservative party’s plan was to convert…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to underline again the hugely important contribution, not least economic contribution, made by carers. The consultation is under way, and it…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceAn assessment will be carried out by a properly trained health professional. If the person to whom my hon. Friend refers scores more than four points on any one of the 10 daily…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We will be working with disabled people over the next few months on the plans for how that commitment should be taken forward. We said in the…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceMy hon. Friend is right to highlight the challenge of high levels of child poverty. I certainly can give him the reassurance that he seeks. I think the employment impact will be…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I join him in paying tribute to organisations such as JobSmart in his constituency. When the previous Labour Government introduced the new…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceIt is very important that the system properly handles fluctuating conditions. One of the benefits of the proposal in the Green Paper to record by default PIP assessments is that…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceI am working with the Minister for Care in the Department of Health and Social Care on this. I agree with my hon. Friend that we need to work across Government on these issues. We…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceI very much agree that this all needs to be done in a managed and compassionate way, which is exactly what we are doing, so I do not agree that it is being rushed. As I have said,…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to say that we were left with a broken system. May I pay tribute to her for her work on the all-party parliamentary group on eye health and…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceI echo the hon. Gentleman’s condolences. The figures were certainly not snuck out yesterday; I do not think anyone can accuse the Office for Budget Responsibility of sneaking them…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind words at the start of his question. Our proposals fully protect the personal independence payments of those with the most severe…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point. Given his description of the people being cared for, they will continue to receive personal independence payments. Once…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceI will be very glad to. My hon. Friend is right that the indicators used in the current personal independence payment assessment were drawn up in 2013. It is high time that we had…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceI very much welcome my hon. Friend’s testimony to the value of the support that the system provides and the importance of maintaining that into the future. He is right about…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceYes, the earnings threshold will in future be set at 16 times the hourly rate of the national living wage, and that will continue indefinitely. In addition, the Chancellor…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceAs the hon. Lady will have gathered, the impact assessment was published yesterday. The figures are there for everybody to see, and the impacts are across the UK; that is correct.…27 Mar 2025HANSARD PIP Changes: Impact on Carer’s AllowanceMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to raise those points. I can give him the assurance that he seeks. Indeed, I spoke to Scope yesterday, and to other disability charities. Yes,…27 Mar 2025