Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were receiving (a) severe disability premium, (b) enhanced disability premium or (c) severe and enhanced disability premiums as of May 2017.

The information available for Income Support, Pension Credit and Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants in May 2017 who were in receipt of severe and enhanced disability premiums is in the table below:

Income Support, Pension Credit and Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants in receipt of the severe disability premium and enhanced disability premium, May-2017, Great Britain

Source: DWP 100% and 5% Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study data

Notes

1. Income Support and Pension Credit figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Jobseeker’s Allowance figures are rounded to the nearest 100. “–“ denotes nil or negligible.
2. The JSA figures are from the 5% WPLS data. The best statistics on benefits are derived from 100% data sources. However, the 5% sample data still provide some detail not yet available from the 100% data sources. DWP recommends that, where the detail is only available on the 5% sample data, the proportions derived should be applied to the overall 100% total for the benefit. This is the methodology used to derive the JSA figures provided here.

The Department intends to release an ad-hoc statistics publication for Employment and Support Allowance recipients in receipt of severe and enhanced disability premiums.

The information requested is not readily available for Housing Benefit and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.