questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) Personal Independence Payment, (b) Universal Credit health-related and (c) wider working-age welfare expenditure in each financial year to 2030-31; what assessment he has made of the potential impact of increases in claims relating to lower-level mental health conditions on those projections; and whether he has considered bringing forward legislative proposals to reform eligibility criteria, fit note assessments, benefit cap exemptions and access to welfare support for non-UK nationals.
answerText: Estimates of the cost to the public purse of Personal Independence Payment, Universal Credit health-related, and wider working-age welfare expenditure in each financial year to 2030-31 are published in: Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2026 - GOV.U...
heading: Social Security Benefits