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 the guidance used to (a) produce the estimates and (b) process the backdated payments following the judgement is publicly available.

The Advice for Decision Making (memos 15/18 and 16/18) give guidance on applying the MH and RJ Upper Tribunal (UT) decisions. This is publically available through this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/advice-for-decision-making-staff-guide

The estimates in the Equality Analysis were based on medical and policy expert advice, as well as a small in-depth exercise to look at actual cases. This was before knowing the full detail of which claimants would be eligible for additional payments and producing the guidance to implement the MH decision.