§ 22. Sir Teddy TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of the numbers of persons on disability benefits whose entitlement has been cancelled in the last year. [107209]
§ Mr. BayleyAbout 160,000 awards of Disability Living Allowance and 275,000 awards of Attendance Allowance stopped in 1999. These benefits provide help with extra costs which arise from disablement, and awards stop in a range of circumstances, including when people's condition improves, they go to live abroad, or they die, or enter long-term residential care.