Question follow-through · 39295
Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the cost to the public purse for PIP payments for people with mental health conditions.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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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
18 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the cost to the public purse for PIP payments for people with mental health conditions.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer to Question UIN 34908 on 10th March 2025.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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