Question follow-through · 34908

Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the annual expenditure on Personal Independence Payments for mental health conditions was in the most recent financial year for which data is available.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
5 Mar 2025
Answer
10 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the annual expenditure on Personal Independence Payments for mental health conditions was in the most recent financial year for which data is available.

  2. 5 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    Data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) can be found on Stat Xplore. You can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest user and, if needed, you can access guidance on how to extract the information required. An estimate for the annual PIP expenditure in...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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