Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her oral contribution of 23 January 2018, what the evidential basis is for her statement that the Government is spending more on personal independence payments than it did on disability living allowance.

My Rt. Hon Friend, the Secretary of State, made clear in her statement that the figures she referred to applied to the main disability benefits: Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment. These figures are taken from the latest release of the benefit expenditure and caseload tables available from here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables.