Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people that claimed employment and support allowance in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020 and (d) 2021.

Quarterly statistics on the number of people receiving Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and monthly statistics on the number of people receiving ESA Work Capability Assessments can be found on Stat-Xplore at:

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

Guidance for users is available at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html

The annual caseload figures for ESA are shown in Table 1c of the latest Benefit expenditure and caseload tables published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables