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Employment and Support Allowance

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 129826, tabled on 23 January 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people stopped receiving Employment and Support Allowance as a result of gaining employment in each of the last five years.

Answered on

26 January 2023

The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Information on ESA exit reasons is not readily available for analytical use. Therefore, providing such information would require the matching of several databases, and would take a disproportionate amount of time to locate and produce.

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