Employment and Support Allowance

(asked on 13th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people left the Employment and Support Allowance Support Group in each of the last twelve months for which data is available.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 21st November 2023

The following table shows the volume of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Support Group (SG) claimants who left the SG, in each of the last twelve months for which data is available.

Volume of ESA claimants who left the SG by month.

Month

Volume

Apr-22

11,400

May-22

12,000

Jun-22

11,500

Jul-22

10,700

Aug-22

10,700

Sep-22

10,800

Oct-22

11,100

Nov-22

10,800

Dec-22

10,400

Jan-23

10,700

Feb-23

9,800

Mar-23

11,600

Volumes have been rounded to the nearest 100.

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