wrans/answers2025-05-01 conversation_15
Source: hansard.parliament.uk (2025-05-01)

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Victoria Collins:To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant 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. \p Sir Stephen Timms: A 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 category

Volume of PIP Claimants in receipt of Daily Living component

Claimants awarded less than 4 points in all daily living activities

Volume in each condition group

Proportion in each condition group

Cancer

70,000

23,000

33%

Anxiety and Depression

587,000

282,000

48%

Autistic Spectrum Disorders

206,000

13,000

6%

Learning Disabilities

188,000

7,000

3%

ADHD / ADD

75,000

14,000

19%

Psychotic Disorders

112,000

26,000

23%

Other Psychiatric Disorders

90,000

25,000

28%

Arthritis

279,000

214,000

77%

Chronic Pain Syndromes

173,000

118,000

68%

Back Pain

194,000

154,000

79%

Other Regional Musculoskeletal Diseases

136,000

97,000

71%

Cerebrovascular Diseases

56,000

19,000

34%

Epilepsy

36,000

11,000

30%

Multiple Sclerosis and Neuropathic Diseases

80,000

38,000

48%

Cerebral Palsy and Neurological Muscular Diseases

47,000

11,000

24%

Other Neurological Diseases

97,000

35,000

36%

Respiratory Diseases

83,000

45,000

55%

Cardiovascular Diseases

61,000

38,000

62%

All Other Conditions

272,000

126,000

46%

Source: PIP Administrative Data

Notes:

- 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 System

- 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 known