The Department for Work and Pensions announced on 12 August 2026 that disabled people and people with long-term health conditions were invited to apply for 15 workshops intended to help shape the recommendations of the Timms Review into Personal Independence Payment. Registration was scheduled to open that day at 10am and close on Friday 21 August 2026 at 5pm, with selected participants to be informed by 4 September 2026. The workshops were planned to be held online and in person across the UK during September and October 2026, after the Review's Interim Report, published in July 2026, found PIP no longer fit for purpose.

The announcement said the workshops were aimed primarily at disabled people and people with long-term health conditions, with no previous experience of government reviews required, and that carers, family members and support workers were also eligible to register. Selection was to be random, with the steering group reviewing the pool to ensure a balanced range of characteristics. The Review said it would also contact Disabled People's Organisations, charities and MPs over the same period to test and refine its emerging recommendations before a final report due in Autumn 2026.

Dr Clenton Farquharson CBE, co-chair of the Review and a member of the workshops working group, said the workshops were intended to test the Review's emerging recommendations against real lives and that he was committed to showing how participants' feedback influences the final recommendations. The announcement said more than 38,000 responses to the Review's Call for Evidence had been received.