Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 May 2020 to Question 47371, for what reasons personal independence payment (PIP) claimants whose award was made following an appeal to the First Tier Tribunal and was due to expire before 24 March were excluded from the policy of automatically extending PIP awards in line with her Department's press release entitled Coronavirus Update – Benefits reviews and reassessments suspended.

As previously announced, since 24 March the Department has been extending awards of Personal Independence Payment due to end from that date onwards, regardless of whether the final decision on the award was made by a Case Manager or a Tribunal.