Question follow-through · 36559
Social Security Benefits: Disability and Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people claiming (a) disability and (b) incapacity benefits with a mental health condition are eligible for those benefits due solely to a mental health condition.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 7 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
7 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people claiming (a) disability and (b) incapacity benefits with a mental health condition are eligible for those benefits due solely to a mental health condition.
14 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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