Tom Brake – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Brake on 2015-11-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of the welfare budget was spent on employment and support allowance, incapacity benefit and income support claimants or universal credit claims with sickness or disability elements in 2014-15.
Priti Patel
The benefit expenditure for 2014/15 is in the table below:
| Benefit | 2014/15 expenditure £m |
| Employment & Support Allowance | 12,827 |
| Incapacity Benefit | 245 |
| Income Support incapacity | 389 |
| Severe Disablement Allowance | 735 |
| Total | 14,196 |
Severe Disablement Allowance is a non-contributory version of Incapacity Benefit and is included here for completeness. Information on the sickness or disability element of Universal Credit is currently unavailable.
Detailed information on benefit expenditure is available in our Benefit Expenditure tables which can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015
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