Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 61934

Social Security Benefits: Disability

Tabled: 23 June 2025
Answered: 2 July 2025

Question

Will Stone

LabourSwindon North

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate her Department has made of the proportion of disability benefit claimants who are on a waiting list for NHS treatment.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
There were 7.4 million NHS Referral to Treatment (RTT) pathways where the patient was waiting to start treatment at the end of April 2025 (this includes all ages).The number of people (aged 16 to 64) not in work who left their job in the previous year for...

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