PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Employment and Support Allowance: Mental Illness (27 October 2022)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many income-related Employment and Support Allowance claimants have been found to have a diagnosable mental health illness.
Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)
Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)
Answer
The latest available data on the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) caseload with ‘Mental and Behavioural disorders’ as their primary medical condition, split by payment type (i.e. ‘Income based’ and ‘Both income and contributions based’), can be found on Stat-Xplore.
Data is based on primary medical condition as recorded on the ESA computer systems. Claimants may have multiple disabling conditions on which their entitlement is based, but only the primary condition is available for statistical purposes and shown in these statistics.
Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here.
Answered by:
Tom Pursglove (Conservative)
3 November 2022
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