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425788

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date	03/11/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	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.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	14568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>The benefit expenditure for 2014/15 is in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td>Benefit</td><td>2014/15 expenditure £m</td></tr><tr><td>Employment &amp; Support Allowance</td><td>12,827</td></tr><tr><td>Incapacity Benefit</td><td>245</td></tr><tr><td>Income Support incapacity</td><td>389</td></tr><tr><td>Severe Disablement Allowance</td><td>735</td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>14,196</td></tr></tbody></table><p>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.</p><p>Detailed information on benefit expenditure is available in our Benefit Expenditure tables which can be found at: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015</a></p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/11/2015 15:41:48 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

425789

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
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	State Retirement Pensions: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of the welfare budget was spent on the state pension in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	14569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>Total State Pension expenditure in 2014/15 was £86,516m.</p><p>Detailed information on benefit expenditure is available in our Benefit Expenditure tables which can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/11/2015 14:43:14 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

425790

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Child Benefit: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the welfare budget was spent on child benefit in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	14570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>The latest available estimates of Child Benefit expenditure in 2014-15 can be found in Table 4.19 of the publication ‘Economic and fiscal outlook – July 2015’ available here: <a href="http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/economic-fiscal-outlook-july-2015/" target="_blank">http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/economic-fiscal-outlook-july-2015/</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 09/11/2015 14:34:47 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

425791

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimants in 2014-15 were not British citizens.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	14571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>The information as requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/11/2015 15:22:53 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake