Question follow-through · 5537
Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding PIP eligibility for serious mental health conditions such as schizophrenia.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 1 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2026 · 8 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
1 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding PIP eligibility for serious mental health conditions such as schizophrenia.
3 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2026
Answer published
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is assessed on the basis of the needs arising from long-term health conditions and disabilities rather than on the condition itself. As such, PIP is already available to people with schizophrenia.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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