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Social Security Benefits: Disability

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The information requested is contained in the following tables.

Disability living allowance (DLA) recipients in Chatham and Aylesford parliamentary constituency by main disabling condition, of physical and mental health disabilities, age and sex—February 2011
	Total with physical or mental health disabilities	Mental health disabilities	Physical disabilities
	All	Female	Male	All	Female	Male	All	Female	Male
All	4,880	2,300	2,580	1,530	580	950	3,350	1,720	1,630
Under 5	100	30	70	40	10	30	60	20	40
5 to under 11	330	90	240	220	50	170	110	40	70
11 to under 16	430	120	310	250	60	190	170	60	120
16-17	140	40	100	90	20	60	60	20	40
18-24	330	110	220	200	60	140	130	50	80
25-29	180	80	100	100	50	60	80	40	50
30-34	180	90	90	70	30	40	110	60	50
35-39	220	110	100	90	40	50	130	80	50
40-44	320	170	140	110	60	50	210	120	90
45-49	380	200	180	110	60	50	270	140	130
50-54	390	220	170	80	40	40	320	180	130
55-59	440	240	200	60	30	30	380	200	170
60-64	560	310	250	60	40	20	500	270	230
65-69	390	200	200	30	10	10	370	190	190
70-74	260	150	110	20	10	10	240	140	100
75-79	150	80	70	10	—	—	140	80	60
80-84	60	40	20	—	—	—	60	40	20
85-89	10	10	—	—	—	—	10	10	—
90 and over	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Source:
DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS)

Attendance allowance (AA) recipients in Chatham and Aylesford parliamentary constituency by main disabling condition, of physical and mental health disabilities, age and sex—February 201
	Total with physical or mental health disabilities	Mental health disabilities	Physical disabilities
	All	Female	Male	All	Female	Male	All	Female	Male
All	1,810	1,240	570	200	130	70	1,610	1,110	500
65-69	80	50	40	10	—	10	70	40	30
70-74	250	150	100	20	10	10	220	140	90
75-79	400	250	150	50	30	20	360	230	130
80-84	410	280	130	60	40	10	360	240	120
85-89	410	310	100	40	30	10	360	280	90
90 and over	260	200	60	20	20	10	240	190	50
Notes:
1. Caseloads are rounded to the nearest 10. Totals may not sum due to rounding.
2. '—' denotes nil or negligible.
3. Where more than one disability is present only the main disabling condition is recorded.
4. Figures show the number of people in receipt of an allowance, and excludes people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended, for example if they are in hospital.
5. 'Mental health disabilities' encompass the main disabling conditions 'learning difficulties' and 'mental and behavioural disabilities'. In October 2008 much finer classifications were introduced for new DLA claimants. DWP do not report on these finer classifications as the majority of pre-2008 claims still have the ““old codes”” on the administrative system. A new code (cognitive disorders—other/type not known) was introduced within the general classification of ““psychiatric disorders””. Claimants allocated to this group are included within ““mental health disorders””.
6. ““Physical disabilities”” encompass all categories not included in ““mental health disabilities””, including the main disabling conditions arthritis, muscle/joint/bone disease, blindness, stroke related, epilepsy, deafness, malignant disease, chest disease, back ailments, heart disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes mellitus, renal disorders, aids, skin disease, frailty, multiple sclerosis. The small number of cases with unknown medical code (see note 7) have been included in ““physical disorders””).
7. The preferred data source for benefit statistics is 100% Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study. However, the 5% sample data are generally the preferred source for analysis on DLA disabling condition as information is more complete. However in this case the WPLS data have been used as some of the caseload figures produced are very small and so would have a high level of statistical variation should the sample data have been used.
8. Parliamentary constituency is based on the Westminster Parliament of May 2010.
Source:
DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS)

Disability living allowance (DLA) recipients in Chatham and Aylesford parliamentary constituency by main disabling condition, of each physical or mental health disability by gender—February 2011
		Total	Female	Male
Chatham and Aylesford parliamentary constituency		4,880	2,300	2,580
Mental health disabilities:		1,530	580	950
	Behavioural disorder	150	30	120
	Dementia	20	10	10
	Learning difficulty	810	260	560
	Personality disorder	30	20	10
	Psychiatric disorders	—	—	—
	Psychoneurosis	210	130	80
	Psychosis	270	130	140
	Severely mentally impaired	30	10	20
Physical disabilities:		3,350	1,720	1,630
	AIDS	10	—	10
	Alcohol and drug abuse	30	10	20
	Arthritis	670	440	230
	Asthma	30	20	10
	Back pain—not specified	250	130	120
	Blindness	110	50	50
	Blood disorders	10	10	—
	Bowel and stomach disease	30	20	10
	Cerebrovascular disease	140	70	70
	Chest disease	140	50	80
	Chronic fatigue syndrome	60	60	10
	Cystic fibrosis	10	—	—
	Deafness	90	40	50
	Diabetes mellitus	100	40	50
	Disease of the muscles, bones or joints	300	170	130
	Double amputee	—	—	—
	Epilepsy	130	60	70
	Frailty	—	—	—
	Haemodialysis	—	—	—
	Haemophilia	10	—	10
	Heart disease	140	40	100
	Hyperkinetic syndrome	190	30	160
	Infectious disease	—	—	—
	Inflammatory bowel disease	10	10	—
	Major trauma other than traumatic paraplegia	30	10	20
	Malignant disease	130	70	60
	Metabolic disease	30	20	10
	Motor neurone disease	—	—	—
	Multi system disorders	10	10	—
	Multiple sclerosis	120	80	40
	Neurological disease	200	100	100
	Other unspecified mainly terminally ill	10	—	—
	Parkinson's disease	20	10	10
	Peripheral vascular disease	20	10	10
	Renal disorders	20	10	10
	Skin disease	20	10	10
	Spondylosis	110	60	50
	Total parenteral nutrition	—	—	—
	Trauma to limbs	80	30	50
	Traumatic paraplegia/tetraplegia	10	—	10
	Unknown	100	60	40
Source:
DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS)

Attendance allowance (AA) recipients in Chatham and Aylesford parliamentary constituency by main disabling condition, of each physical or mental health disabilities, by gender, February 2011
		Total	Female	Male
Chatham and Aylesford parliamentary constituency		1,810	1,240	570
Mental health disabilities:		200	130	70
	Dementia	170	110	50
	Learning difficulty	10	—	—
	Psychiatric disorders	—	—	—
	Psychoneurosis	10	10	—
	Psychosis	10	10	—
Physical disabilities:		1,610	1,110	500
	Arthritis	580	460	120
	Asthma	20	10	—
	Back pain—not specified	30 ___|	20	10
	Blindness	80	60	20
	Blood disorders	—	—	—
	Bowel and stomach disease	—	—	—
	Cerebrovascular disease	110	50	60
	Chest disease	90	40	50
	Chronic fatigue syndrome	—	—	—
	Deafness	10	—	—
	Diabetes mellitus	40	30	10
	Disease of the muscles, bones or joints	110	80	30
	Epilepsy	—	—	—
	Frailty	150	110	40
	Haemodialysis	—	—	—
	Heart disease	130	80	50
	Inflammatory bowel disease	10	—	—
	Major trauma other than traumatic paraplegia	—	—	—
	Malignant disease	50	30	20
	Metabolic disease	—	—	—
	Multi system disorders	—	—	—
	Multiple sclerosis	10	—	—
	Neurological disease	20	10	10
	Other unspecified mainly terminally ill	40	30
	Parkinson's disease	50	20	30
	Peripheral vascular disease	10	—	10
	Renal disorders	10	10	—
	Skin disease	—	—	—
	Spondylosis	20	10	—
	Trauma to limbs	10	10	—
	Unknown	—	—	—
Notes:
1. Caseloads are rounded to the nearest 10. Totals may not sum due to rounding.
2. '—' denotes nil or negligible.
3. Where more than one disability is present only the main disabling condition is recorded.
4. Figures show the number of people in receipt of an allowance, and excludes people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended, for example if they are in hospital.
5. 'Mental health disabilities' encompass the main disabling conditions 'learning difficulties' and 'mental and behavioural disabilities'. In October 2008 much finer classifications were introduced for new DLA claimants. DWP do not report on these finer classifications as the majority of pre-2008 claims still have the ““old codes”” on the administrative system. A new code (cognitive disorders—other/ type not known) was introduced within the general classification of ““psychiatric disorders””. Claimants allocated to this group are included within ““mental health disorders””.
6. ““Physical disabilities”” encompass all categories not included in ““mental health disabilities””, including the main disabling conditions arthritis, muscle/joint/bone disease, blindness, stroke related, epilepsy, deafness, malignant disease, chest disease, back ailments, heart disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes mellitus, renal disorders, aids, skin disease, frailty, multiple sclerosis. The small number of cases with unknown medical code (see note 7) have been included in ““physical disabilities””).
7. The preferred data source for benefit statistics is 100% Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study. However, the 5% sample data are generally the preferred source for analysis on DLA disabling condition as information is more complete. However in this case the WPLS data has been used as some of the caseload figures produced are very small and so would have a high level of statistical variation should the sample data have been used.
8. Parliamentary constituency is based on the Westminster Parliament of May 2010.
Source:
DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS)

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

68401; 532 c472-7W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Disability Social security benefits Chatham

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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