Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference the policy paper, Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper, published in March 2023, if he will make an assessment of the (a) demographic and (b) socioeconomic characteristics of those who claim the limited capability for work and work-related activity element of Universal Credit and do not receive Personal Independence Payments.

The department aims to publish a range of information on claimants of the limited capability for work and work-related activity element of Universal Credit in due course, and will pre-announce any publication in line with normal statistical practices.