Paul Burstow
Liberal Democrat, Sutton and Cheam
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in the employment and support allowance work-related activity group have a prognosis of unlikely to return to work in the longer term. [Official Report, 22 November 2013, Vol. 570, c. 7-9MC.]
Mark Hoban
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions
There is no such prognosis as being unable to return to work in the longer-term. However, the following table shows how many claimants have been allocated a prognosis of two years or more:
| Employment and support allowance (ESA) new claims—Outcomes of initial functional assessments by prognosis and month of result date, for the work related activity group, Great Britain | |
| Claimants with prognosis of two years or more | |
| 2008 | |
| December | — |
| 2009 | |
| January | — |
| February | — |
| March | 200 |
| April | 200 |
| May | 200 |
| June | 300 |
| July | 400 |
| August | 400 |
| September | 300 |
| October | 300 |
| November | 300 |
| December | 300 |
| 2010 | |
| January | 300 |
| February | 300 |
| March | 300 |
| April | 200 |
| May | 300 |
| June | 300 |
| July | 300 |
| August | 200 |
| September | 300 |
| October | 300 |
| November | 200 |
| December | 200 |
| 2011 | |
| January | 200 |
| February | 200 |
| March | 200 |
| April | 200 |
| May | 200 |
| June | 100 |
| July | 100 |
| August | 100 |
| September | 100 |
| October | 100 |
| November | 100 |
| December | 100 |
| 2012 | |
| January | 200 |
| February | 200 |
| March | 200 |
| April | 200 |
| May | 200 |
| June | 200 |
| July | 200 |
| August | 200 |
| September | 200 |
| October | 300 |
| November | 300 |
| December | 200 |
| 2013 | |
| January | 200 |
| February | 200 |
| Notes: 1. Figures are shown rounded to the nearest 100. 2. '—' denotes nil or negligible. Scope: Initial functional assessment—the first assessment of the employment and support allowance claim. The outcome recorded is the final DWP decision-maker's decision or the recommendation made by the Atos Healthcare professional where the decision-maker's decision is not yet available. Source: Data in the table is derived from administrative data held by the DWP and assessment data provided by Atos Healthcare. | |
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