Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the additional costs incurred by people with disabilities in the UK for (a) extra transport and (b) general living costs.

No recent estimate has been made of the additional costs incurred by people with disabilities. Previous research has demonstrated that developing a robust estimate of the extra costs of disability is not straightforward. There are a number of proposed methods for estimating extra costs, which produce different results dependant on a range of factors, including the severity and type of impairment, income and geographic location.