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Employment and Support Allowance

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN HL871, tabled on 29 June 2015

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they have responded to the ruling of the Information Commissioner regarding the publication of statistics on deaths related to Employment and Support Allowance benefit; and when they intend to publish this data.

Answered on

10 July 2015

The Department has lodged an appeal with the First Tier Tribunal against the Information Commissioner’s decision notice of 30 April 2015.

The statistics the Department intend to publish will be pre-announced on the GOV.UK website.