Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Please provide me with details of the numbers of clients on the Personal Independence Payment caseload with recognised psychiatric disorders who were awarded descriptors 9b, 9c or 9d at the last date for which this information is available plus the numbers who were not awarded a descriptor under activity area 9 (i.e. awarded 9a). If the information is available please break this down by the numbers satisfying the individual descriptors (i.e. 9b, 9c and 9d separately)

Please Breakdown the information by the standard second-tier reporting criteria (Personality disorder, Specific learning disorder, Stress reactions, Anxiety disorders, Obsessive compulsive disorder, Mixed anxiety and depressive disorders, Somatoform and dissociative disorders, Mood disorders, Psychotic disorders, Cognitive disorders, Eating disorders, Substance (mis) use disorders, Factitious disorder, global Learning disability, Autistic spectrum disorders, Hyperkinetic disorder, Conduct disorder (including oppositional defiant disorder), Enuresis, Faecal soiling (encopresis), Other psychiatric disorders of childhood)

I thank you for your assistance in this matter

Yours faithfully,

Micheal Robinson