Alan Brown – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alan Brown on 2015-10-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the schedule of comparable programme objects in HM Treasury’s publication, Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly: Statement of Funding Policy, published in October 2010, what the total expenditure was on how many claims relating to pneumoconiosis in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Kilmarnock and Loudon constituency between 2010 and 2015; and how many such claims were unsuccessful.

Justin Tomlinson

The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Benefit expenditure for Pneumoconiosis at a Great Britain level is available in our published expenditure tables which are available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015

The number of monthly Pneumoconiosis claims and expenditure at a Great Britain level by type of claimant and payment is available from here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/industrial-injuries-disablement-benefit-quarterly-statistics

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