Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit: Dupuytren's Contracture

(asked on 4th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with Dupuytren's contracture have been awarded Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit in (a) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council area, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) England in each of the last three years.


Answered by
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Chloe Smith
This question was answered on 9th March 2022

The Department publishes monthly statistics on assessments of claims made to the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit scheme every three months on Stat-Xplore. The statistics are available by decision type and prescribed disease which, from December 2019, includes Dupuytren's Contracture. The latest statistics are available to June 2021 and can be broken down to various geographies here:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/


Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html

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