Pathways to Work
(asked on 15th July 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 23 April 2025 to Question 47466 on Pathways to Work: Impact Assessments, what the most recent equivalent disaggregation is by health category; what definitions are used in the disaggregation for Anxiety and Depression and ADHD/ADD; and how those definitions vary from the categories used for his Department’s PIP cases with entitlement from 2019 release.
Answered by
Stephen Timms
Minister of State (Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government) (Equalities)
The equivalent table for the PIP caseload at April 2026 is provided below.
ADHD / ADD is defined in the same way as the category used in the “PIP cases with entitlement form 2019” release.
Anxiety and Depression is a disaggregation of the Psychiatric Disorders group on the “PIP cases with entitlement from 2019” release; as previously included in the notes of the referenced response to question 47466, the group contains the following primary conditions:
- 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
Table 1: PIP Daily Living claimants by primary condition group
Health Condition Category | Volume of PIP claimants receiving the Daily Living component | Volume of claimants with the Daily Living component awarded more than 8 points total but less than 4 points in each daily living activity | Proportion of claimants with the Daily Living component awarded more than 8 points total but less than 4 points in each daily living activity |
Cancer | 79,000 | 26,000 | 34% |
Anxiety and Depression | 661,000 | 312,000 | 47% |
Autistic Spectrum Disorders | 248,000 | 16,000 | 7% |
Learning Disabilities | 194,000 | 7,000 | 4% |
ADHD / ADD | 97000 | 20,000 | 20% |
Psychotic Disorders | 118,000 | 26,000 | 22% |
Other Psychiatric Disorders | 97,000 | 26,000 | 27% |
Arthritis | 296,000 | 228,000 | 77% |
Chronic Pain Syndromes | 196,000 | 134,000 | 68% |
Back Pain | 212,000 | 169,000 | 79% |
Other Regional Musculoskeletal Diseases | 151,000 | 108,000 | 72% |
Cerebrovascular Diseases | 60,000 | 21,000 | 35% |
Epilepsy | 39,000 | 12,000 | 29% |
Multiple Sclerosis and Neuropathic Diseases | 84,000 | 42,000 | 49% |
Cerebral Palsy and Neurological Muscular Diseases | 48,000 | 11,000 | 24% |
Other Neurological Diseases | 106,000 | 39,000 | 37% |
Respiratory Diseases | 86,000 | 48,000 | 55% |
Cardiovascular Diseases | 68,000 | 42,000 | 62% |
All Other Conditions | 307,000 | 145,000 | 47% |
Source: PIP Administrative Data
Notes:
- Figures are based on the PIP caseload at the end of April 2026 (latest available data).
- 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 claimants
- Data 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 number 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 the primary condition is available centrally 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 System
- Figures may not sum due to rounding.
- Figures are rounded to the nearest 1,000 for volumes and the nearest percentage point for proportions.