Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2017 to Question 118979, what estimate he has made of the proportion of clients undergoing work capability assessments who are suffering from mental ill health.

The information requested on Work Capability Assessments is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

The latest available information to June 2017 on the number of completed Work Capability Assessments by International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) groupings can be found in Table 7 of the Employment and Support Allowance Outcomes of Work Capability Assessments quarterly statistics published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-december-2017