PIP: The Numbers · Postcode lottery

Where PIP is hardest to get.

PIP new-claim award rates vary by 17.6 percentage points across Westminster constituencies in England and Wales. Below: every ranked seat, its award rate, claimant count, per-1,000 electors, and eight-year trend. Data window: May 2023 to April 2026.

National new-claim award rate
44.3%
England and Wales, May 2023 to April 2026.
The gap
33.6% → 51.2%
Birmingham Ladywood (lowest) to Clacton (highest): a 17.6pt spread.
Constituencies ranked
575
Seats with at least 500 new-claim decisions in the window. Scotland has migrated to Adult Disability Payment; Scottish constituencies have no recent PIP new-claim decisions and are shown without award rates or rank.

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The table

Where PIP is hardest to get, ranked by award rate.

Ranked by the share of new claims awarded, lowest first (rank 1 = lowest award rate). Never ranked by claimant numbers: this table ranks DWP decisions, not the people who claim. Click any row for that constituency's full page.

Method: new claim decisions only, DLA reassessments excluded, seats with at least 500 decisions in May 2023 to April 2026, rates as published by DWP Stat-Xplore.

Showing 575 of 575
Award rate (3y)
33.6%
Rank
1
Claimants
11,431
Per 1,000 electors
149.3
Region
West Midlands
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
34.1%
Rank
2
Claimants
8,703
Per 1,000 electors
122.2
Region
West Midlands
Trend
Award rate (3y)
34.4%
Rank
3
Claimants
9,916
Per 1,000 electors
133.9
Region
West Midlands
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
35.1%
Rank
4
Claimants
7,338
Per 1,000 electors
101.9
Region
East Midlands
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
36.2%
Rank
5
Claimants
8,434
Per 1,000 electors
116.8
Region
West Midlands
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
36.6%
Rank
6
Claimants
8,092
Per 1,000 electors
112.6
Region
East Midlands
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
36.6%
Rank
7
Claimants
7,613
Per 1,000 electors
107.2
Region
East Midlands
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
36.8%
Rank
8
Claimants
9,939
Per 1,000 electors
136.4
Region
East Midlands
Trend
Award rate (3y)
36.8%
Rank
9
Claimants
8,793
Per 1,000 electors
116.0
Region
West Midlands
Trend
Award rate (3y)
36.9%
Rank
10
Claimants
12,010
Per 1,000 electors
156.1
Region
West Midlands
Trend
Award rate (3y)
36.9%
Rank
11
Claimants
10,299
Per 1,000 electors
146.0
Region
West Midlands
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
36.9%
Rank
12
Claimants
6,122
Per 1,000 electors
82.8
Region
West Midlands
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
37.0%
Rank
13
Claimants
9,713
Per 1,000 electors
135.1
Region
West Midlands
Trend
Award rate (3y)
37.1%
Rank
14
Claimants
6,577
Per 1,000 electors
89.4
Region
East of England
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
37.7%
Rank
15
Claimants
4,634
Per 1,000 electors
66.1
Region
East Midlands
Trend
Award rate (3y)
37.7%
Rank
16
Claimants
8,725
Per 1,000 electors
125.0
Region
West Midlands
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
37.8%
Rank
17
Claimants
9,058
Per 1,000 electors
129.7
Region
East Midlands
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
37.8%
Rank
18
Claimants
8,336
Per 1,000 electors
110.1
Region
East Midlands
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
37.8%
Rank
19
Claimants
9,776
Per 1,000 electors
135.3
Region
East of England
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
37.9%
Rank
20
Claimants
7,377
Per 1,000 electors
95.8
Region
West Midlands
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
38.0%
Rank
21
Claimants
7,774
Per 1,000 electors
101.7
Region
East Midlands
Trend
Award rate (3y)
38.0%
Rank
22
Claimants
11,083
Per 1,000 electors
148.7
Region
East Midlands
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
38.1%
Rank
23
Claimants
5,842
Per 1,000 electors
80.6
Region
East Midlands
Trend
Constituency
Award rate (3y)
38.1%
Rank
24
Claimants
11,062
Per 1,000 electors
153.5
Region
East Midlands
Trend
Award rate (3y)
38.1%
Rank
25
Claimants
12,546
Per 1,000 electors
163.2
Region
West Midlands
Trend
The regional picture

Region matters. So does condition.

Regional new-claim award rates (May 2023 to April 2026), from lowest to highest.

Same condition, different region.

Regional new-claim award rates for selected conditions (May 2023 to April 2026). Cells with fewer than 200 decisions in the region are omitted.

RegionFibromyalgiaADHD / ADDAutismAnxiety and depressive disorders - mixed
North East61.7%31.5%46.8%58.6%
North West62.1%32.2%48.4%58.3%
Yorkshire and The Humber61.3%31.0%48.6%55.2%
East Midlands52.1%24.5%37.8%44.8%
West Midlands52.7%22.1%37.4%46.3%
East of England58.3%30.4%48.5%52.3%
London64.9%30.0%49.4%57.1%
South East58.2%29.7%48.2%53.5%
South West55.7%29.6%48.8%53.4%
Wales52.8%25.4%37.6%48.9%
What the pattern shows

The lowest-award seats cluster in urban West Midlands (Birmingham, the Black Country). The highest-award seats cluster in coastal and post-industrial areas of England and along the North East. Award rates track claim mix, deprivation, and the profile of conditions people present with, alongside assessment practice.

This data cannot attribute cause. Two seats with the same rate can look very different underneath: one heavy in psychiatric claims, the other in musculoskeletal. Read each constituency page for its own condition mix.

Methodology and caveats

Definitions. Award rate = Awarded / (Awarded + Disallowed), new claims decided in the window, withdrawn excluded. Rates shown only where at least 500 decisions.

Window. May 2023 to April 2026. Caseload snapshot: April 2026.

Scotland. Scotland has migrated to Adult Disability Payment; Scottish constituencies have no recent PIP new-claim decisions and are shown without award rates or rank.

Source. DWP Stat-Xplore (Open Data API). Retrieved 17 July 2026.

Electorates. mySociety 2025 constituency dataset (electorate figures).

Licence. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Full methodology.

Edition
June 2026 DWP release
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.21920593

Archived copy published 13 August 2026. The deposit defines the measure as awarded divided by awarded plus disallowed, new claims only, withdrawn excluded.

How to cite this

Finally Seen (2026). PIP new-claim award rates by condition and by constituency, June 2026 DWP release. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21920593

The DOI is the concept DOI and always resolves to the newest archived edition.

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How to read these figures

Source
DWP Stat-Xplore and the published DWP PIP statistical releases. Every figure on the page carries its own source link and the period it covers, and no figure here is recomputed or modelled by us.
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
DWP rounds published volumes and suppresses small cells to protect identity. Where a group is too small to publish a stable rate we do not print a rate for it, and we do not fill the gap with an estimate.
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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