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Incapacity Benefit

Volume 505: debated on Wednesday 3 February 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many incapacity benefit claimants there are in each (a) county, (b) metropolitan authority, (c) London borough and (d) unitary authority in England. (314005)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people claimed incapacity benefit in each year since 1997; and how many such claimants (a) reached retirement age and (b) died in each such year. (315052)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) on 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 166W.