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Mr Ayers made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Work and Pensions
The request was partially successful.
From: Mr Ayers
11 July 2010
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Under the Freedom of Information act, I would like to request the
following benefits claimant statistics:
1. The total number of people claiming Disability Living Allowance.
2. The number of people receiving High rate DLA Care
3. The number of people receiving Medium rate DLA care
4. The number of people receiving Low rate DLA care
5. The number of people receiving Low rate DLA mobility
6. The number of people receiving High rate DLA mobility
7. The total number of people claiming Carers allowance
8. The total number of people claiming incapacity benefit
9. Please state how many people are claiming incapacity benefit for
physical illness or disability, and how many people are claiming
incapacity benefit for mental illness or disability (please provide
a figure with overlap and one without)
10. The total number of people claiming Employment and support
allowance who are in the assessment stage
11. The total number of people claiming Employment and support
allowance who are in the Work related activity group
12. The total number of people claiming Employment and support
allowance who are in the Support group
13. The percentage of claimants who terminate their claim whilst it
is within the assessment stage
14. Please state how many people in total are claiming ESA for
physical illness or disability, and how many people are claiming
ESA for mental illness or disability (please provide a figure with
overlap and one without)
15. Please state how many people who are in the ESA Support group
are claiming because of a mental/cognitive illness/disability and
how many people who are in the ESA support group because of a
physical illness/disability (please provide a figure with overlap,
and one without)
16. How much does it cost the DWP/Government for every ESA medical
conducted by ATOS Origin? (How much do the DWP pay for ATOS Origins
time to conduct each assessment) If an exact cost isn't available,
please make an estimate or provide relevant information for an
estimate to be made.
17. How many ESA appeals were there in 2009? How many were
successful and how many were declined?
18. How many ESA claimants passed the assessment stage (either in
support group or work related activity group) who did NOT have to
attend a medical at all? (Ie. GP evidence was sufficient)
19. How many DLA claims were made in 2009? How many were successful
(awarded at least 1 component) and how many were unsuccessful
(awarded neither component)?
Yours faithfully,
Mr Elias
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Department for Work and Pensions
11 July 2010
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From: DWP Adelphi Freedom-of-Information-Request
Department for Work and Pensions
3 August 2010
Dear Mr Elias
Please see attached response to your FoI request.
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