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2 September 2026: this edition frozen before the next release
Edition 2026-07Every per-constituency award rate published in the July 2026 edition has been copied to a permanent file that will not change. When the next DWP release lands, the comparison published here will be against this file, so the change between editions can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- 575 ranked England and Wales seats, window May 2023 to April 2026, retrieved 17 July 2026.
- National new-claim award rate in this edition: 44.3%.
- Award rate = Awarded / (Awarded + Disallowed), new claims decided in the window, withdrawn excluded. Rates shown only where at least 500 decisions.
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Source: DWP Stat-Xplore (Open Data API). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
July 2026, baseline edition
Retrieved 16 July 2026Launched the Believability Gap study covering 165 DWP condition categories, and the Postcode Lottery study covering 575 ranked Westminster constituencies. Every figure links to its DWP source.
- Overall PIP new-claim award rate: 44.2% all-time, 39.6% in the last 12 months (May 2025 to April 2026).
- PIP caseload: 4,010,119 people, April 2026.
- Autism: 9.6pt drop, all-time vs 12 months.
- Asperger syndrome: 9.2pt drop, all-time vs 12 months.
- Multiple sclerosis: 8.8pt drop, all-time vs 12 months.
- ADHD / ADD: 7.6pt drop, all-time vs 12 months.
Birmingham Ladywood 33.6% vs Clacton 51.2%, across May 2023 to April 2026.
- Per-condition mandatory reconsideration figures are labelled April 2013 to July 2021, the most recent per-condition MR data DWP publishes.
- Scottish seats are shown without award rates or rank, per DWP's Adult Disability Payment migration.
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- Source
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- Population
- everyone in Great Britain with a PIP claim recorded under the disabling condition named on this page. Claims are coded by DWP to a single primary disabling condition, so a person with more than one condition appears once, under one code.
- Suppression and small numbers
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- What these figures are not
- They are averages across a whole condition code over a whole period. They are not a prediction about any individual claim, not a measure of how disabling a condition is, and not a statement about anyone's entitlement. Decisions are made on the evidence in a single claim.
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