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date	25/03/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an estimate of how many people entitled to the Employment and Support Allowance did not claim it in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020 and (d) 2021.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	20448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>Estimates for the number of entitled non-recipients and caseload take-up are available for income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Income Support (IS) up to financial year 2018/19. These can be found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">here.</a> Figures for 2018/19 were affected by no new claims for income-related ESA and IS from December 2018 as a result of Universal Credit rollout. No figures have been published for ESA/IS since 2018/19 due to the roll out of Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>No estimates of the volume of entitled non-recipients of New Style (contributory) ESA have been made.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/04/2024 12:51:57 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1698641

registered interest
date	25/03/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the eligibility National Insurance criteria for Employment and Support Allowance to people who have paid National Insurance contributions over two full tax years in their lives.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	20449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>New Style Employment and Support Allowance (NS ESA) is a benefit for individuals with a limited capability to work based on the individual’s recent National Insurance (NI) record.</p><p> </p><p>Normally, to be entitled to NS ESA, a claimant has to satisfy two NI conditions:  to have worked and paid enough NI contributions in one of the two tax years prior to claiming NS ESA for at least 26 weeks; and to have either paid, or been credited with, enough NI contributions in both of the two tax years prior to claiming NS ESA that is at least 50 times the minimum threshold.</p><p> </p><p>Looking at the most recent tax years, ensures people have a recent record of paid contributions and therefore a close link with the labour market.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/04/2024 12:49:50 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols