Employment and Support Allowance
Work and Pensions
Stephen Timms (East Ham, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost of including additional cancer patients in the support group for employment and support allowance.
Mark Hoban (Fareham, Conservative)
The estimated additional cost to ESA for the financial year 2012-13 is £350,000.
Subsequent years' estimates are:
| £ | |
| 2013-14 | 400,000 |
| 2014-15 | 300,000 |
| 2015-16 | 200,000 |