Question follow-through · 44881
Employment and Support Allowance: Multiple Sclerosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with Multiple Sclerosis who receive income-based Employment and Support Allowance do not also receive Personal Independence Payment.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 7 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 23 Apr 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with Multiple Sclerosis who receive income-based Employment and Support Allowance do not also receive Personal Independence Payment.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Apr 2025
Answer published
In August 2024 there were 6,480* people in receipt of Income-related ESA whose main condition was multiple sclerosis. 1,490* of those in receipt of Income-related ESA whose main condition was multiple sclerosis were not in receipt of PIP, the remaining 5,...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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