§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of the approximate proportion of those previously on unemployment benefit who after one year are still available for work, but who nevertheless make no subsequent claim to which they are entitled, and who do not form a component of the published statistics; and if he will state the approximate numbers of persons in this category who first became eligible for unemployment benefit in January, February and March 1992, respectively.
§ Mr. BurtThe information requested is not available. At November 1992, 368,000 people were registered unemployed for the purpose of claiming national 681W insurance credits only and were included in the published statistics. Of these, 86,000 had exhausted their entitlement to unemployment benefit.
Source: Half yearly Analysis of Unemployed Claimants November 1992.