MP v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP): [2025] UKUT 240 (AAC)
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wright on 18 July 2025.
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Judicial Summary
This decision is mainly about one issue: whether the ability to move around, or carry items in, a kitchen is relevant under Personal Independence Payment (PIP) daily living activity 1 (preparing food). It decides that moving around or carrying is not relevant to daily living activity 1. This is because the statutory acts of ‘preparing a simple meal’ or ‘cooking a simple meal’ are not connected and because ‘making food ready for cooking’ does not include carrying the (prepared) food to the place where it is to be cooked at or above waist height. It also decides that dentures may in principle constitute an aid for the purposes of PIP daily living activity 2 (taking nutrition), though the First-tier Tribunal’s (FTT’s) failure to investigate this issue was not a material error of law.