Question follow-through · 7660
Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the Personal Independence Payment assessment process for people with recognised long-term mental health conditions.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 7 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 11 Oct 2024 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health · 9 Dec 2024
- Department for Work and Pensions: Mental Health · 9 Dec 2024
- Department for Work and Pensions: Mental Health · 9 Dec 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
7 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the Personal Independence Payment assessment process for people with recognised long-term mental health conditions.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Oct 2024
Answer published
Research is in progress seeking to understand more about the experience of claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for those with a mental health condition or neurodiversity. Entitlement to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) depends on the effects t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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