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Employment and Support Allowance: Disabled

Volume 506: debated on Tuesday 2 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many and what proportion of applicants for employment and support allowance have been classified as disabled; (318287)

(2) how many and what proportion of applicants for employment and support allowance who have been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease have been classified as disabled;

(3) how many and what proportion of applicants for employment and support allowance who were previously in receipt of incapacity benefit have been classified as disabled;

(4) how many and what proportion of applicants for employment and support allowance who have been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and who were previously in receipt of incapacity benefit have been classified as disabled;

(5) what percentage of applicants for employment and support allowance diagnosed with fibromyalgia have been classified as disabled;

(6) what percentage of applicants for employment and support allowance diagnosed with fibromyalgia who had previously been in receipt of incapacity benefit have been classified as disabled.

The information is not available.

Information on whether a claimant is disabled or not is not recorded for the purposes of employment and support allowance.