The Timms Review
This page brings together publications related to the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
The government has launched the Timms Review to ensure that Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is fair and fit for the future in a changing world, and helps support disabled people to achieve better health, higher living standards and greater independence, including through employment.
PIP supports many people with the extra costs of a disability or long-term health condition, and the government is committed to ensuring it remains a non-means-tested cash benefit, there for people in and out of work. However, despite shifting trends in disability and long-term health conditions, as well as changes in wider society and the workplace, PIP has never been fully reviewed.
To ensure lived experience is at the heart of its work, the Review will be co-produced with disabled people, the organisations that represent them, carers, clinicians, experts, Members of Parliament and other stakeholders.
The Review will be co-chaired by Sir Stephen Timms, Minister for Social Security and Disability, Sharron Brennan and Dr Clenton Farquharson CBE. The co-chairs will oversee a steering group which will jointly lead the Review.
Steering Group
If you are interested in becoming a member of the steering group, you can submit an Expression of Interest.
The steering group will not work alone: it will shape a programme of participation that brings together the full range of views and voices.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published the initial Terms of Reference in June 2025.
On 30 October 2025, we updated the Review’s Terms of Reference to reflect current government policy following changes to the Universal Credit Act, and to include additions and clarifications following stakeholder engagement over the summer of 2025.
The Review aims to report to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in autumn 2026 and we have committed to reporting its outcomes to Parliament.