Every parliamentary constituency successful Britain saw a emergence successful incapacity payment claims past twelvemonth - with immoderate of the largest increases driven by a surge successful intelligence wellness problems successful affluent areas.
Analysis of DWP information showed that portion the highest fig of claims successful 2023 were made successful municipality and post-industrial areas, immoderate leafy suburban commuter loop towns astir London and different ample cities saw claims summation by much than a third.
They see constituencies with Tory MPs including Tonbridge & Malling successful Kent, Basingstoke successful Hampshire and Hexham successful Northumberland.
Claims are up by astatine slightest 10 per cent successful each 1 of the 650 Westminster seats, the investigation by Labour, archetypal reported by the Times, has found.
Last period it emerged that 2.8million radical person near the workforce owed to semipermanent sickness – the astir since the 1990s. Mental wellness problems impact much than a 3rd of 16 to 34-year-olds retired of enactment owed to semipermanent unwellness and relationship for 69 per cent of each aesculapian claims.
It comes arsenic the authorities tries to get connected the beforehand ft with efforts to chopped waiting lists for NHS treatment.
Earlier this week the Work and Pensions Secretary said Britons indispensable revert to the 'old-fashioned belief' that enactment is bully for you.
Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride (pictured) said the nation's attack to tackling intelligence wellness issues whitethorn person 'gone excessively far'
Mel Stride claimed the nation's attack to tackling intelligence wellness issues whitethorn person 'gone excessively far', suggested the regular 'ups-and-downs of life' should not beryllium 'labelled' oregon 'medicalised'.
The curate said payment reforms would guarantee the Government could 'break the rhythm of radical going to spot their GP and ending up parked connected benefits done time'.
'Perhaps it's an old-fashioned content – but I deliberation it's 1 that needs to travel backmost into manner – is that enactment is bully for you,' helium told Radio 4's Today programme.
'Work is bully for your intelligence health. Getting up successful the morning, having a consciousness of purpose, interacting with different radical successful the workplace, having that speech by the watercooler oregon immoderate it whitethorn be, is bully for our intelligence health.
'My ngo is to get arsenic galore radical into enactment arsenic possible, and I attraction the astir astir those who tin payment from enactment successful the mode that I've described.'
But Alison McGovern, the shadiness enactment and pensions minister, told the Times the Conservatives had 'failed connected work', saying: 'On the Tories' watch, millions of radical crossed the state are stuck connected intelligence wellness waiting lists oregon locked retired of enactment owed to semipermanent sickness astatine immense outgo to them, to concern and to the payer too.'
A Department of Work and Pensions spokesperson said: 'We are gathering connected our beardown employment grounds with our £2.5 cardinal backmost to enactment program which volition assistance implicit a cardinal people, including those with disabilities and semipermanent wellness conditions to interruption down barriers to work.
'Our landmark payment reforms volition chopped the fig of radical owed to beryllium enactment onto the highest tier of incapacity benefits by implicit 370,000.'
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