Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress she has made on implementing the changes to the 2017 Personal Independence Payment Regulations advised by the High Court in December 2017.

On the 19^th January, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions announced that she would not appeal the High Court judgment regarding part of the 2017 amending regulations relating to eligibility to the Mobility Component of Personal Independence Payment. The Secretary of State also confirmed that the Department will implement the law on the mobility component, as set out in the MH Upper Tribunal judgment. The Department is now working at pace to make the necessary guidance changes, in order to implement the MH judgment safely and effectively.

For information on the indicative timescales for this, I refer the Hon. Member to a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document that the Secretary of State has laid in the House Library (Deposit reference: DEP2018-0345).