To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who claimed (a) incapacity benefit, (b) severe disablement allowance and (c) income support for incapacity who moved from permitted work into employment of 16 hours a week or more in each of the last three years. (127818)

The information is not available in the format requested.

Evaluations carried out by the Institute for Employment Studies on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions, which consider the stepping stone effect of permitted work, have been published.

Copies of the following reports have been placed in the Library:

A Stepping Stone to Employment: An Evaluation of the Permitted Work Rules—Wave 2 (2004) [wave 2]; and

Final Outcomes from the Permitted Work Rules, Department for Work and Pensions Research Report No.268. (2005) [wave 3]