§ 27. Mr. Alan HowarthTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many, and what proportion of, applicants for disability working allowance in the. last 12-month period for which information is available, were disqualified because of their earnings or rise in family income.
§ Mr. ScottOut of a total of 12,665 applications received between December 1992 and November 1993, 850 new and repeat claims were disallowed because their income exceeded the level of disability working allowance. This represented a proportion of 6.7 per cent.