Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of (a) incapacity benefit and employment support allowance, (b) disability living allowance and (c) severe disablement allowance claiming for each type of disability there were in (i) Bury St Edmunds constituency, (ii) Suffolk, (iii) the East of England and (iv) England and Wales in each of the last five years; and how much was spent in each such category in each such year.

Due to changes in medical condition definitions breakdown data is only available from 2011/12 for Disability Living Allowance, this can be found in the attached Excel document: Expenditure and Caseloads by medical condition.

Breakdowns prior to 2010/11 are not available for Employment and Support Allowance.