Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Office for National Statistics' personal and economic well-being in the UK data series, what estimate she has made of the proportion of (a) people that are long-term sick and (b) disabled people that suffer from low personal wellbeing.
The proportions of individuals aged 16-64 in the UK who reported low personal wellbeing, in January-December 2018, by long-term health and disability status, are given in the table below.
| Long-term health condition | Disabled | All aged 16-64 |
Life satisfaction | 9.7% | 13.8% | 4.5% |
Feel activities worthwhile | 7.8% | 11.4% | 3.7% |
Happiness | 14.4% | 19.2% | 8.4% |
Anxiety | 29.5% | 35.7% | 20.3% |
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