Mobility: Terminology

(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which conditions are included within the movement disorders disability category Stat-Xplore sub group; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 12th September 2017

The information requested is shown in the list below.

List 1: Breakdown of ‘movement disorders’ disability category for primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system

Detailed Medical Condition for ‘Movement disorders’

Blepharospasm

Essential tremor - benign

Huntington's disease

Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's syndrome / Parkinsonism

Torticollis

Tourette's syndrome

Writer's cramp

Movement disorders - Other / type not known

Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the assessment is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.

All health conditions are coded on DWP systems using the high level “block” codes, consisting of a letter and two numbers in the range A00 to Z99, of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition, published by the World Health Organisation.

http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2016/en.

Please note that we are not able to break this data down to the four-character subcategories specified by the codes using decimal points.

Reticulating Splines