HC Deb 25 January 1996 vol 270 c365W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of the numbers of people in receipt of incapacity benefit who are no longer eligible for invalidity benefit at the most recent date for which information is available. [11088]

Mr. Burt

On 13 April 1995, all recipients of invalidity benefit transferred to incapacity benefit at the rate of the benefit in payment. At 31 August 1995, the latest date for which information is available, 1.64 million1people were in receipt of incapacity benefit who had, before 13 April 1995, been in receipt of invalidity benefit. 1Note: Figures excludes a small number of cases paid clerically.