Personal Independence Payment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he will publish data on the number of Personal Independence Payment claimants by (a) daily living component points score and (b) mobility component points score, broken down by primary disabling condition.
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms
The information requested is provided in the attached workbook. Figures for claimants with the most common disabling conditions in receipt of the PIP Daily Living component including those scoring fewer than 12 points on the Daily Living activities are provided in Table 1.
Figures for volume of claimants with the most common disabling conditions by total number of points scored on daily living activities are provided in Table 2. Figures for volume of claimants with the most common disabling conditions by total number of points scored on mobility activities are provided in Table 3.
Please note the following points for the provided tables:
- Figures are based on the PIP caseload at end January 2026.
- Data only includes claimants living in countries or regions under DWP policy ownership (England, Wales and a small number of claimants abroad).
- Data includes working age claimants only
- 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 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 System
- Anxiety 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 known
- Figures may not sum due to rounding.
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