§ Mr. RooneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many applications for national insurance contributions holidays have been received since April 1995; how many have been successful by standard region and Great Britain as a whole and by(a) gender and (b) ethnicity and specifying the numbers who were (i) registered unemployed, (ii) recipients of a training allowance, (iii) lone parents and (iv) carers. [4434]
§ Mr. HealdThe information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is as follows:
Number Applications 2,039 Successful applications 1,679 Unsuccessful applications 279 Awaiting further information 81
Regional breakdown (successful applications) Number North 188 Yorkshire and Humberside 254 East Midlands 174 East Anglia 56 South East 233 South West 162 West Midlands 174 North West 166 Wales 80 Scotland 142 Greater London 50
Total successful applications, by gender Number Male 1,435 Female 244 Number previously unemployed: 1,619. Number of lone parents: 57. Number of carers: 3.
- 1. The number of recipients of training allowance is not calculated separately.
- 2. Statistics relate to the position on 13 November 1996.