Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of employment support allowance in each year since 2010.
I would like to refer the Hon. Member to the Department’s published benefit expenditure information, which can be found in the public domain:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2019.