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Crisis Loans

Volume 448: debated on Monday 3 July 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many crisis loans have been (a) applied for and (b) granted in each local authority area in Scotland in each of the last five years. (80851)

The information is not available in the format requested. The table gives information for Scotland as a whole.

Crisis loans in Scotland

Number

Applications

Initial awards

2001-02

308,000

213,000

2002-03

312,000

222,000

2003-04

327,000

226,000

2004-05

303,000

209,000

2005-06

326,000

224,000

Notes: 1. Data is not available by local authority, but only by Jobcentre Plus district (or, before Jobcentre Plus districts were used for the administration of the social fund, by social fund district). 2. Very substantial district boundary changes took place in Scotland over the period November 2002 to April 2003 and again from November 2004 to January 2005, with one further change in January 2006. It is therefore not possible to compare data over five years for any area smaller than Scotland, except for the area now covered by the Jobcentre Plus district of Edinburgh, Lothian and Borders. 3. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 1,000. Source: DWP Social Fund Policy, Budget and Management InformationSystem.