Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the cumulative financial effect on disabled people of social security changes since 2010.
In 2020/21 DWP is forecast to spend £16.2 billion more on benefits to support disabled people and people with health conditions than was spent in 2010/11. This is an increase of over £8 billion in real terms, using 2019/20 prices.