To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on the Health Transformation Programme.
Answered on
15 May 2024
The Government is committed to continuously improving support for disabled people and people with health conditions, including through the Health Transformation Programme which is modernising Health and Disability benefit services to create a more efficient service and a improved claimant experience, reducing the time it takes to process a claim and improving trust in our services and decisions.
The department has started to publish HTP management information (MI). On 19 December 2023, the department published the first in a new series; publication of this MI will continue quarterly in line with the PIP Official Statistics release schedule. This can be found here.
The Programme published its Evaluation Strategy on 25th May 2023 here.
The National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee published reports in 2023 on the Health Transformation Programme.
Transforming health assessments for disability benefits (nao.org.uk)
Revising health assessments for disability benefits (parliament.uk)