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Social Security Benefits: Lewes

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 6 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many former claimants of jobseeker's allowance in Lewes constituency have moved on to receive (a) pension credit, (b) a training allowance, (c) the self-employment credit and (d) funding from the Future Jobs Fund in each month of the last two years. (308461)

Data on people who flow off jobseeker’s allowance onto pension credit are not collated centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Information on the number of people who have flowed off jobseeker’s allowance onto the self-employment credit or into a Future Jobs Fund job in Lewes constituency is not available.

The available information is in the following table.

Number of jobseeker’s allowance claimants in Lewes constituency who have flowed off jobseeker’s allowance onto Government supported training schemes in each month of the last two years

Number of claimants

December 2007

20

January 2008

5

February 2008

10

March 2008

15

April 2008

10

May 2008

5

June 2008

5

July 2008

5

August 2008

10

September 2008

10

October 2008

1

November 2008

5

December 2008

10

January 2009

5

February 2009

5

March 2009

5

April 2009

10

May 2009

10

June 2009

15

July 2009

10

August 2009

1

September 2009

1

October 2009

1

November 2009

1

1 Nil or negligible.

Notes:

1. Data are rounded to the nearest five.

2. This information is published on the Nomis website at www.nomisweb.co.uk

3. The percentage of people leaving with an unknown destination recorded has increased over the last 10 years. This is because the completion levels of the JSA40 (forms filled in by people leaving jobseeker’s allowance) have decreased over this period. This should be taken into account when interpreting these statistics, as many of these ‘unknown’ leavers will have moved into employment or other benefits.

Source:

Count of unemployment-related benefits, Jobcentre Plus computer systems (computer held cases only).