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Incapacity Benefit

Volume 463: debated on Tuesday 24 July 2007

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Mr. Clappison

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of incapacity benefit claimants had been in receipt of incapacity benefit for five years or more in each year since 1997. (150848)

Mrs. McGuire

The available information is in the following table.

Incapacity benefit (IB)/severe disablement allowance (SDA) claimants with duration of five years or over; Great Britain

As at November each year:

IB/SDA claimants with duration of five years or over

Percentage of IB/SDA claimants with duration of five years or over

2000

1,233,030

44.6

2001

1,311,790

47.1

2002

1,392,350

49.4

2003

1,433,850

50.8

2004

1,468,620

52.2

2005

1,489,980

54.1

2006

1,500,380

55.3

Notes:

1. Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Some additional disclosure control has also been applied.

2. ‘Claimant’ figures include credits only cases.

3. Figures for claimants with a duration of claim of five years or over are not available prior to 2000 as IB was not introduced until April 1995.

Source:

DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100 per cent. data