Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether severely disabled Personal Independence Payment claimants in residential homes under NHS Continuing Care are eligible for higher rate mobility to enable them to lease a mobility vehicle.

Where someone is maintained free of charge while undergoing medical or other treatment as an in-patient in a hospital or similar institution (as defined) funded by the NHS, payment of (but not entitlement to) the daily living and mobility components of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) ceases after 28 days. This is on the basis that the NHS is responsible for the entirety of the person’s disability-related extra costs and to pay PIP in addition would be a duplication of public funds intended for the same purpose.

NHS Continuing Healthcare funding in accommodation where medical or other treatment is being provided in the accommodation by a doctor or qualified nurse, or under their direct supervision, means that the accommodation is classified as a similar institution to a hospital.