§ Mr. HannamTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will estimate how many recipients of the disability working allowance will be working for(a) between 16 and 24 hours and (b) 24 hours or more a week.
§ Mr. ScottWe estimate that once the benefit is established about 50,000 people will receive disability working allowance at any given point. We expect that about a quarter of these will be working fewer than 24 hours a week.
§ Mr. HannamTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people would gain if the disability living allowance were to include(a) a diet component and (b) a heating component for those disabled people who incur extra costs.
§ Mr. ScottThe numbers who might gain from changes to the proposed disability living allowance would depend on the conditions of entitlement. Very substantial numbers of those people who have extra costs associated with either