Social Security Benefits: Disability
(asked on 14th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how UK public spending on disability and incapacity compares with other G7 nations.
This question was answered on 25th June 2018
As a share of GDP, latest data shows that the UK’s public spending on disability and incapacity is the second highest in the G7. Public incapacity spending in the G7 countries is shown in the table.
| Public spending – incapacity-related (per cent of Gross Domestic Product) |
Germany | 2.1 |
United Kingdom | 2.0 |
Italy | 1.7 |
France | 1.7 |
United States of America | 1.4 |
Japan | 1.0 |
Canada | 0.8 |
Source: Social Expenditure Database, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development