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Jobseeker's Allowance

Volume 504: debated on Tuesday 26 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what percentage of pupils permanently excluded from school in (a) England, (b) the north-east and (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland claimed jobseeker's allowance within three months of leaving school in the latest period for which figures are available; (302998)

(2) what estimate she has made of the average length of time permanently excluded pupils who subsequently claimed jobseeker's allowance claimed before finding full-time employment in the latest period for which figures are available;

(3) what proportion of 16 year-olds in (a) England, (b) the north-east and (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency who left school without five GCSEs at grade A* to C began to claim jobseeker's allowance within six months of leaving school in the latest period for which figures are available.

The information requested is not available.

Jobseeker's allowance is not usually payable to under 18s, except those in severe hardship.

Information on whether a claimant of jobseeker's allowance is or was a permanently excluded student is not collected by the Jobcentre.

Academic qualifications are collected by the Jobcentre when a claimant applies for jobseeker's allowance however these are not collected on the datasets used to analyse jobseeker's allowance claimants.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many people who reached the end of their entitlement to contribution-based jobseeker's allowance went to (a) claim income-based jobseeker's allowance, (b) claim Class 1 national insurance credits only (c) claim another out-of-work benefit and (d) left benefits in each month since January 2008; (313105)

(2) what estimate she has made of the number of claimants at the end of an entitlement to contribution-based jobseeker's allowance who (a) went on to claim income-based jobseeker's allowance, (b) went on to claim Class 1 national insurance credits only, (c) went on to claim another out of work benefit and (d) left benefits altogether in each year since 1997.