Social Security Benefits

Mrs. May
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of claims for (a) jobseeker’s allowance, (b) income support, (c) employment and support allowance, (d) pension credit and (e) carer’s allowance delayed as a result of the misplacing of paperwork by his Department and its agencies in each of the last three years.

Mr. McNulty
The information requested is not collected centrally.