Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to worksheet 1 of his Department's Data tables: Health and Disability benefits based on data from 2019 to 2022, published on 20 July 2023, whether his Department has undertaken analysis of the health conditions reported by the 516,100 people with limited capability for work and work-related activity who are not receiving a personal independence payment.

Currently we do not report aggregate information about whether or not a UC claimant has reported specific health conditions and to collate and quality assure this information would incur disproportionate costs.

DWP have published a forward-looking Release Strategy for UC-WCA Official Statistics including plans to develop and publish statistics on WCA decisions by health conditions under Phase 2. See here for further details:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-wca-statistics-release-strategy/universal-credit-work-capability-assessment-statistics-release-strategy