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<p>Under the Industrial Injuries Scheme (IIS), silicosis is compensated for under
the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) Act 1979 lump sum scheme and Industrial
Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB).</p><p> </p><p>Under the 1979 Act lump sum scheme,
the department has paid out £41,382 over the financial years 17/18 and 18/19 to claimants
and their dependants affected by silicosis.</p><p> </p><p>Under IIDB, awards for silicosis
are made under prescribed diseases which include other medical conditions. Unfortunately,
as this information is not immediately accessible, and would require the merging,
filtering and quality assuring of complex datasets, data on these claimants could
only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>For Personal Independence
Payment (PIP) the latest data on claims in payment can be broken down by month from
April 2013 to April 2019 and by disability (including <strong>silicosis) </strong>can
be found on Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>
</p><p>The latest data on PIP expenditure broken down by disability subgroup including
pneumoconiosis, of which silicosis is one disease, is published and can be found at:
<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/741592/pip-expenditure-by-medical-condition-2017-18.ods"
target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/741592/pip-expenditure-by-medical-condition-2017-18.ods</a></p><p>
</p><p>For Employment Support Allowance (ESA), there is high level data stored on
medical conditions on the Department’s data base; <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml"
target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>. However, at present this data has not been broken
down to include conditions such as silicosis.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use
Stat-Xplore can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html"
target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p>
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