§ Mr. Marlowasked the Paymaster General what are the latest figures, expressed as numbers and percentages by region, for (a) the numbers of Restart letters sent out, (b) the number of second letters sent out, (c) the numbers
MSC Regions South East London South West West Midlands East Midlands Yorks and Humberside North West Northern Wales Scotland Great Britain Total 1. Numbers of first Restart letters sent out 83,675 129,815 43,291 110,999 75,778 84,170 161,646 74,104 51,461 97,551 912,490 2. Numbers of second letters sent out 16,511 43,292 9,075 18,190 12,756 12,747 29,428 9,437 9,663 17,822 178,921 3. Second letters as percentage of first letters 20 33 21 16 17 15 18 13 19 18 20 4. Numbers of failures to attend following two invitations 4,962 15,404 2,305 3,156 3,159 3,353 7,530 2,273 2,454 4,391 48,987 5. Failures to attend as percentage of first letters 6 12 5 3 4 4 5 3 5 5 5 6. Numbers ceasing to claim benefit being contacted but before interview and counselling 9,335 10,315 4,184 6,179 7,595 7,442 13,148 4,694 4,667 6,843 74,402 7. Numbers ceasing to claim benefit after being contacted but before interview and counselling as percentage of first letters sent out 11 8 10 6 10 9 8 6 9 7 8 8. Numbers ceasing to claim benefit after interview and counselling 6,943 7,453 3,698 5,736 5,860 7,592 12,902 8,105 5,657 8,293 72,239 9. Numbers ceasing to claim benefit after interview and counselling as percentage of first letters sent out 8 6 9 5 8 9 8 11 11 9 8