Social Security Benefits: Eligibility
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish a breakdown by (a) disability and (b) long-term illness of eligibility for (a) Universal Credit, (b) Employment and Support Allowance, (c) Disability Living Allowance and (d) Personal Independence Payment in the last 12 months.
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms
Statistics by primary disabling condition are already published for Employment and Support Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, and Personal Independence Payment at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.
Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.
Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html. An account is not required to use Stat- Xplore, the ‘Guest Login’ feature gives instant access to the main functions.
Statistics on the outcomes of Universal Credit work capability assessments (UC WCA) are available by high-level medical condition for the period from January 2022 to August 2024 in Table 7 of the latest UC WCA data tables.
For UC, it is not possible to provide the statistics for the primary medical condition, due to how the information on medical conditions is recorded and compiled. See section 3 of the Universal Credit Work Capability Assessment statistics: methodology and Note 9 of the UC WCA data tables for further information.
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