Adult Disability Payment caseload by Condition Type: FOI release

Information requested

SSS provides data on Adult Disability Payment Caseload by ICD10 Condition and Award Type, which is then subdivided into four categories: Mood Disorders (F30-F39), Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders (F40-F48), Autism and other developmental disorders (F80-F84) and Other Mental and Behavioural Disorders.

Request for Information 1: I would like to ask for the current caseload for each condition. e.g. the caseload for F00, the caseload for F01 etc.

Request for Information 2: Please also tell me what the caseload was at the end of each financial year since 2022-23.

Response

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance Social Security Scotland does not have the information you have requested. We only hold information on caseload by detailed disability condition as part of official statistics publication outputs, which are quarterly and cover either up to end April, end July, end October or end January. None of these publications align with the end of a financial year and we hold no such breakdown for the period prior to April 2024.

To locate and retrieve the information requested for 15 December 2025 or end March would require complex analysis. There is no requirement under legislation for authorities to create new information in response to a request.

​​​​​​​This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that Social Security Scotland does not have the information you have requested.

You may be interested in the information available in our latest official published statistics here: Adult Disability Payment statistics to 31 October 2025 - Social Security Scotland. Statistics on caseload by condition can be found in Tables 20, 21 and 22 of the published tables.

​​​​​​​To assist you, we have attached statistics showing the caseload for the requested conditions as at 30 April 2024, April 2025 and October 2025. The increase in caseload between March 2024 and March 2025 is largely due to cases being transferred across from the Department for Work and Pensions Personal Independence Payment.

​​​​​​​Publication figures are rounded to the nearest 5, whereas for this response we have used the exact figures. Therefore the attached figures will not align exactly with our published statistics.

​​​​​​​An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to a small amount of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This is because to disclose the number of clients with a particular primary condition where the number is five or less could lead to the identification of individuals. Where the number is zero, this would be disclosed.

​​​​​​​This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.

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