Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of claimants have additional (a) support needs and (b) employment or training needs.

This specific information is not available.

However as of September 2017 there were 804,000 unemployment related claimants (Claimant Count, ONS); 53,700 Universal Credit (UC) claimants with no work requirements; 10,000 UC claimants with planning for work conditionality and 12,900 UC claimants preparing for work (DWP statistics). In addition as of February 2017 there were 2.4 million incapacity related claimants (Employment and Support Allowance and Incapacity Benefit); 610,000 Income Support claimants and 810,000 Carer’s Allowance claimants receiving payment (DWP statistics).

[Sources:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk;

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-statistical-summaries-2017

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/outofworkbenefits/datasets/claimantcountcla01]