Ben Chu

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290 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 17 Aug

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Newscast · Andy Burnham (Almost) Wins · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And this number that's really caught quite a number of headlines is that there are now 100,000 people with the main condition being listed as ADHD.

And that's up from only around 27,000 in 2020.

So that is rising really rapidly.

Now, it's not clear why it's listed as their main condition, because a lot of people have multiple conditions.

but certainly something that's caught the eye of people in the media and politics.

And this Tim's report and others are trying to get to the bottom of why that is and what's the best way to reform the system.

So those are the overall numbers of people claiming.

In terms of the cost of it, just briefly,

PIP is costing around £32 billion a year at the moment.

And by 2030, it's projected to be costing around £41 billion.

So that's going to be a 20% increase in cash terms over those years.

So that's one of the reasons why there's concern about the rising cost of it.

And of course, let's put it in an even bigger context.

PIP is just one element of working age sickness and disability benefits.

It's the fastest growing part, but it's not the only part.

And that overall bill is projected to go to roughly about 80 billion pounds by the end of the decade.

So that's the overall figures.

And that's why there's a lot of focus on trying to stop those costs going up as rapidly as they have been over the past six years or so.

It's quite hard to determine from what he said in his interview exactly what the shape of his proposals will be.

And reading the report itself, it's also not showing much.

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