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Income Support: Disabled

Volume 477: debated on Monday 16 June 2008

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Mr. Harper

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people started a claim for income support with disability premium in each of the last five years. (210198)

Mr. Plaskitt

[holding answer 11 June 2008]: The available information is in the following table.

Income support on-flows with a disability premium

Flowed on in year ending

Number

November 2003

93,640

November 2004

86,740

November 2005

85,930

November 2006

86,630

November 2007

85,890

Notes:

1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.

2. Totals may not sum due to rounding.

3. Figures relate to number of claims, not the number of people. If a person flows on to income support (IS) in the year ending November 2003, flows off IS, then flows back on in the year ending November 2005, s/he will be counted as an on-flow in both of those years.

Source:

DWP WPLS Experimental Benefit Flows Statistics.