Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2018 to Question 125898, on Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health, whether additional funding will be made available as part of her Department's Annual Managed Expenditure to pay for personal independence payment back-payments.

The Department’s Annually Managed Expenditure budget is set through the annual Main and Supplementary Estimates process. It is demand led and set at a sufficient level to cover DWP’s expected welfare spend, including PIP benefit payments to individual claimants and any back payments due.