Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit

(asked on 21st October 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in receipt of industrial injuries disablement benefit claimed the benefit as a result of having contracted an asbestos-related disease in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Mark Harper Portrait
Mark Harper
Secretary of State for Transport
This question was answered on 28th October 2014

The number of people in receipt of industrial injuries disablement benefit who claimed the benefit as a result of having contracted an asbestos-related disease, in each of the last five years can be found in table 1.12A at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/industrial-injuries-disablement-benefit-quarterly-statistics-december-2013

The proportions can be calculated by combining with the information in Table 1.1.

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