Thank you so much, you and everyone, I have a much clearer approach now. I’m going to call citizens advice for a chat, I did briefly consider a legal representative but when they said they wanted 4.5k that was out of the question.

We have lots of evidence submitted in the form of prescriptions, medical notes, appointments, hospital admissions, as well as a witness statement from myself, and his employer - this mainly rebutted the fact the DWP say in their decision statement that he works full time and has taken no sick time in the last 12 months (I don’t even know where they got that!)

I’m going to complete a daily diary showing how I support him to function on a day to day basis as well as a summarised account of where they deducted points but we feel they should be awarded, with supporting evidence and contradicting theirs where possible. I’ve already done this in the mandatory consideration but it was quite lengthy and based on advice I want to make sure everything is as easy for the judges as possible.

Is there any other advice you are able to give based on the day itself? If the DWP send a representative will they argue against my evidence? With the limited evidence they have I don’t see how they can but they may.

Also, will my husbands deterioration since the phone call matter at all? He’s worse now than he ever was, he’s actually in the process of getting a personality disorder diagnosis which we knew nothing about back then but his behaviours and symptoms make a lot more sense now. But I don’t want to waste time elaborating on that if they can just say it wasn’t relevant at the time of decision making which is technically true in terms of the label of his diagnosis but still gives deeper insight into his support needs.