Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2017 to Question 107411 on Social Security Benefits: Disability, what estimate his Department made of the cost of increasing the Access to Work cap to (a) two-times national average earnings, (b) two and a half-times national average earnings and (c) three times national average earnings.

The Equality Analysis for the future of Access to Work, published in May 2015, includes estimated savings over 2014/15 for cap levels including double the average salary. See Table D here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/426416/future-of-access-to-work-equality-analysis.pdf

The information requested in questions (b) and (c) is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.