HC Deb 02 February 1988 vol 126 cc543-4W
21. Ms. Short

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people have been refused unemployment benefit as a result of their refusal to take up an offer made to them following a restart interview.

Mr. Lee

Any refusal of benefit subsequent to a restart interview follows not from the interview itself but from the decision of an independent adjudication officer operating under long-standing legal rules adopted by successive Governments.