Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the support component of employment and support allowance is excluded from calculations of a household's income for the purposes of the benefit cap under the provisions proposed in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill.

The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. A link to the impact assessment on the www.parliament.uk website is included.

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006.pdf