Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2021 to Question 161811 on Personal Independent Payment, whether her Department carried out an equality impact assessment before drafting the renewed guidance following the MH and RJ decisions.

I can confirm an equality analysis was undertaken by the Department to enable Ministers to fulfil the requirements placed on them by the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) as set out in the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the approach to be taken for the MH/RJ administrative exercise.