DDA cases were up 20.2% in 2006-7 compared with 2005-6.  Compensation was also up in 2006.  The average award to successful claimants was £16,962, the highest average across all the strands of discrimination.

The major changes to the DDA both in October 2004, altering the meaning of disability doscrimination, and in December 2005, widening the definition of disability relating to mental impairment and progressive illness.  The impact of these changes is only now being seen in the case law.  Many experts believe that the relmoval of the requirment that a mental illness must be "clinically well recognised" will bring more cases of workplace stress within the scope of the DDA.