Question follow-through · 64305

Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that people with mental health conditions are not disproportionately disadvantaged by the proposed reforms to PIP.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
1 Jul 2025
Target answer date
3 Jul 2025
Answer
10 Jul 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that people with mental health conditions are not disproportionately disadvantaged by the proposed reforms to PIP.

  2. 3 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    As I set out in the House of Commons on 1 July 2025, the Government has listened to the concerns raised by Members from across the House about the proposed changes to Personal Independence Payment (PIP). Clause 5 of the Universal Credit and Personal Indep...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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