Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 34910

Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness

Tabled: 3 March 2025
Answered: 10 March 2025

Question

Helen Whately

ConservativeFaversham and Mid Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of Personal Independence Payment claims for mental health conditions over the next three years.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The Department does not forecast benefit claims by health condition, though it is implicitly assumed that the mix of conditions follows recent trends.