Unemployment: Lone Parents Paul Holmes To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many lone parents claimed jobseeker’s allowance in each year since 1996. Helen Goodman From 24 November 2008, subject to certain exemptions and conditions, most lone parents with older children are no longer entitled to income support if they are only claiming it because they are a lone parent. Instead those able to work may claim jobseeker’s allowance. These changes are being introduced for most lone parents in three stages. For those with a youngest child aged 12 or over, the change applies from 24 November 2008; for those with a youngest child aged 10 or over, from 26 October 2009; and for those with a youngest child aged seven, or over from 25 October 2010. The available information is in the table. 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| |Number| 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|April 2005 |6,985 | 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|May 2005 |6,930 | 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|June 2005 |6,995 | 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|July 2005 |7,090 | 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|August 2005 |7,135 | 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|September 2005 |7,230 | 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|October 2005 |7,045 | 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|November 2005 |7,100 | 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|December 2005 |7,170 | 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|January 2006 |7,790 | 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|February 2006 |8,010 | 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|March 2006 |8,050 | 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|April 2006 |7,780 | 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|May 2006 |7,860 | 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|June 2006 |7,900 | 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|July 2006 |7,825 | 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|August 2006 |7,855 | 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|September 2006 |8,150 | 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|October 2006 |7,915 | 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|November 2006 |7,810 | 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|December 2006 |7,705 | 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|January 2007 |7,885 | 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|February 2007 |7,985 | 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|March 2007 |7,975 | 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|April 2007 |7,790 | 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|May 2007 |7,580 | 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|June 2007 |7,565 | 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|July 2007 |7,540 | 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|August 2007 |7,570 | 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|September 2007 |7,585 | 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|October 2007 |7,105 | 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|November 2007 |6,510 | 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|December 2007 |6,105 | 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|January 2008 |6,415 | 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|February 2008 |6,625 | 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|March 2008 |6,850 | 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|April 2008 |7,180 | 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|May 2008 |7,260 | 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|June 2008 |7,530 | 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|July 2008 |7,770 | 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|August 2008 |8,445 | 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|September 2008 |8,915 | 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|October 2008 |9,365 | 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|November 2008 |10,385| 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|December 2008 |12,225| 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|January 2009 |14,660| 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|February 2009 |17,670| 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|March 2009 |21,095| 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|April 2009 |25,965| 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|May 2009 |30,830| 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|June 2009 |33,000| 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|July 2009 |34,835| 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|August 2009 |40,775| 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|September 2009 |45,425| 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|October 2009 |48,040| 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|November 2009 |50,265| 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|Notes:1. Claimant Count: A monthly count of jobseeker’s allowance claimants in Great Britain. Totals exclude non-computerised clerical claims.2. Some jobseeker’s allowance claimants have their marital status coded as “not known”. Such claimants who are claiming child benefit for at least one child aged under 16 may be lone parents but are not recorded as such in the above table.3. These volumes may be subject to retrospective changes as and when DWP receive updated child benefit data.4. Identification of lone parents claiming JSA:The preferred source of numbers on JSA is the Claimant Count which is produced on a monthly basis by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) via the NOMIS website:www.nomisweb.co.ukDWP are providing a breakdown of this headline number so we can identify the number of lone parents claiming JSA following the roll out of lone parent obligations. This is done using marital status information from the claimant count data alongside HMRC child benefit data. Specifically looking at whether a JSA claimant has their marital status recorded as “single”; “widowed”; “divorced” or “separated”, and has an open child benefit claim for at least one child aged under 16, at the ‘count date’ (second Thursday of each month).5. Data are not available prior to the introduction of these new statistics.Experimental statistics: The new statistics will be labelled as an ‘experimental’ breakdown to the National Statistic status JSA Claimant Count. This label will remain until we are confident that we have a stable methodology and we have given users a chance to comment on the statistics.Source:ONS Claimant Count data and HMRC Child Benefit data.| | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------