Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with acquired brain injuries claim (a) high-rate and (b) low-rate Personal Independence Payments and Employment and Support Allowance.

Acquired brain injuries can commonly refer to a range of different conditions depending on the type of injury. When a claimant’s primary medical condition is recorded on our systems for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independent Payments (PIP), these conditions are grouped with other central nervous system categories on the datasets available for analysis. As such it is not possible for us to isolate acquired brain injuries as a separate recorded condition.