§ Earl Russellasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish's answer of 17 July (WA4), how many people have been partially disentitled to benefit for voluntary unemployment under S.I. 1988 No. 633 in each of the years it has been in operation, what has been the average length of the disentitlement, how many of those affected have had their benefit restored on appeal, and how many of those affected are now (a) in employment, (b) on benefit, (c) in prison and (d) lost to government records.
§ Lord Mackay of ArdbrecknishThe information is not available in the format requested.
The number of deductions from Income Support for voluntary unemployment is contained in Table 10.3 of Volume 1 of the Income Support Statistics Annual Enquiry for the years 1988 to 1993, and from May 1994 in Table 9.3 of the "Income Support Statistics Quarterly Enquiry", which is published for February, May, August and November each year. These volumes are in the Library.
The average length of disentitlement is not kept. A special exercise in the last quarter of 1994 showed that, for leaving voluntarily, 25 per cent of disqualifications were for the maximum 26 weeks.