Gloria De Piero – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gloria De Piero on 2016-02-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) England that will be affected by reductions in employment and support allowance.

Priti Patel

The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the welfare policies in the Bill on 20th July last year. However forecasts for Employment and Support Allowance are made only for Great Britain and are not broken down to the level requested. As such, the information requested is not available.