Question follow-through · 904057
Social Security Benefits: Health and Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of spending on health and disability benefits by the end of the decade.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 6 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of spending on health and disability benefits by the end of the decade.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
Incapacity and disability benefits spending is forecast to increase by £15.5 billion to £90.7 billion by 2029/30. This includes a rise in spending on working-age benefits from £10.3 billion to £65.4 billion. Without the 2025 Spring Statement measures, wor...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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