AskedPursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 42060 on Pathways to Work: Impact Assessments, whether her Department’s further programme of analysis will include a disaggregation of data by category of (a) disability and (b) health condition.
ReplyA breakdown of the impact of the reforms on disability overall has been published as part of an Equality Analysis of the Spring Statement package of measures (https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/pathways-to-work-reforming-benefits-and-support-to-get-britain-working-green-paper/spring-statement-2025-health-and-disability-benefit-reforms-equality-analysis). Data on the health conditions of UC claimants being placed in the LCWRA has been published (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-work-capability-assessment-statistics) and will continue to be taken into account in the future programme of analysis. Analysis of those who do not score 4 points in at least one daily living activity for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has now been undertaken and is provided in the table below. This shows the volume of claimants with the 18 most common disabling conditions in receipt of the PIP daily living component in January 2025, as well as the volume and proportion of these claimants who were awarded less than 4 points in all ten daily living activities. Health condition categoryVolume of PIP Claimants in receipt of Daily Living componentClaimants awarded less than 4 points in all daily living activitiesVolume in each condition groupProportion in each condition groupCancer70,00023,00033%Anxiety and Depression587,000282,00048%Autistic Spectrum Disorders206,00013,0006%Learning Disabilities188,0007,0003%ADHD / ADD75,00014,00019%Psychotic Disorders112,00026,00023%Other Psychiatric Disorders90,00025,00028%Arthritis279,000214,00077%Chronic Pain Syndromes173,000118,00068%Back Pain194,000154,00079%Other Regional Musculoskeletal Diseases136,00097,00071%Cerebrovascular Diseases56,00019,00034%Epilepsy36,00011,00030%Multiple Sclerosis and Neuropathic Diseases80,00038,00048%Cerebral Palsy and Neurological Muscular Diseases47,00011,00024%Other Neurological Diseases97,00035,00036%Respiratory Diseases83,00045,00055%Cardiovascular Diseases61,00038,00062%All Other Conditions272,000126,00046% Source: PIP Administrative DataNotes:Figures are based on the PIP caseload at end January 2025.Data only includes claimants awarded Daily Living component.Data only includes claimants living in regions under DWP policy ownership (England, Wales and Abroad).Data only includes working age claimantsData includes normal rules claimants only and excludes special rules for end of life (SREL) claimants as they typically receive maximum or very high scores.Data may show minor differences to published award level information due to missing or poor quality score data for a small amount of claims.Health condition category is based on primary health condition as recorded on the PIP Computer System at time of latest assessment. Many claimants have multiple health conditions but only primary condition is available for analysis.Only the 18 disabling condition groups which make up the highest proportions of the PIP caseload are displayed in this table.Other disabling condition groups which cover smaller proportions of the PIP caseload are covered in the "Other Conditions" category. This includes:- Visual Diseases- Other General Musculoskeletal Diseases- Endocrine Diseases- Hearing Disorders- Gastrointestinal Diseases- Genitourinary Diseases- Skin Diseases- Autoimmune Diseases (Connective Tissue Disorders)- Infectious Diseases- Diseases of the Liver, Gallbladder or Biliary Tract- Haematological Diseases- Metabolic Diseases- Multisystem and Extremes of Age- Diseases of the Immune SystemAnxiety and Depression includes the following conditions recorded in the PIP Stat Xplore data:- Anxiety disorders - Other / type not known- Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)- Stress reaction disorders - Other / type not known- Generalised anxiety disorder- Phobia - Specific- Phobia - Social- Agoraphobia- Panic disorder- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)- Anxiety and depressive disorders - mixed- Conversion disorder (hysteria)- Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)- Dissociative disorders - Other / type not known- Somatoform disorders - Other / type not known- Depressive disorder- Bipolar affective disorder (Hypomania / Mania)- Mood disorders - Other / type not knownFigures may not sum due to rounding.Figures are rounded to the nearest 1,000 for volumes and the nearest percentage point for proportions.