PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness (27 October 2022)

Only the claimant’s main disabling condition is recorded on the department’s systems. Many people in receipt of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) have more than one condition.

However, the latest data for PIP cases by main disability condition can be found at: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.

Particularly, the ‘PIP Cases with Entitlement’ dataset contains details of claimants receiving PIP and within that, ‘Table 2 – Caseload by Main Disability’ has this data up to July 2022 broken down by disability categories. The disability category ‘Psychiatric Disorders’ includes mental health issues. The full disability hierarchy can be found here: Disability Category / Disability Sub Group (dwp.gov.uk).

Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html.