§ Mr. Frank CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) since the increase in the maximum number of weeks' suspension of unemployment benefit802W from 13 weeks to 26 weeks, how many claims for unemployment benefit have been received at Stockton unemployment benefit office; in how many of these cases benefit has been suspended; in how many of these cases the maximum 26 weeks' suspension has been initially applied by the adjudication officer; in cases where the maximum 26 weeks' suspension has been applied, in how many cases the length of the suspension has been reduced on review of the case; and in how many of the cases where the 26 weeks' suspension has been initially applied, the suspension has been reduced on appeal;
(2) since the increase in the maximum number of weeks' suspension of unemployment benefit from 13 weeks to 26 weeks, how many claims for unemployment benefit have been received at Billingham unemployment benefit office; in how many of these cases benefit has been suspended; in how many of these cases the maximum 26 weeks' suspension has been initially applied by the adjudication officer; in cases where the maximum 26 weeks' suspension has been applied, in how many cases the length of the suspension has been reduced on review of the case; and in how many of the cases where the 26 weeks' suspension has been initially applied, the suspension has been reduced on appeal;
(3) since the increase in the maximum number of weeks' suspension of unemployment benefit from 13 weeks to 26 weeks, how many claims for unemployment benefit have been received nationally; in how many of these cases benefit has been suspended; in how many of these cases the maximum 26 weeks' suspension has been initially applied by the adjudication officer; in cases where the maximum 26 weeks' suspension has been applied, in how many cases the length of the suspension has been reduced on review of the case; and in how many of the cases where the 26 weeks' suspension has been initially applied, the suspension has been reduced on appeal,
§ Mr. LeeThe table shows, for the period April 1988 to December 1988, the number of claims for unemployment benefit that were received for the locations requested and for the country as a whole.
Information is not available on how many of these claims were disqualified by the adjudication officer, nor on the numbers where the maximum period of disqualification had been imposed or reduced on review or appeal.
Number of claims taken for period April 1988 to December 1988. Locations Number Stockton 10,312 Billingham 3,361 National 2,938,226