§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment for each employment service region, how many claimants have been referred to the unemployment benefit service due to availability doubts during May 1988.
§ Mr. CopeThis information is not available in the form requested. Questions concerning a person's availability for 661W work may arise following any interview with an employment service official and records of all such instances are not kept.
However, the table gives figures by employment service region for the number of cases which were referred in May to the independent adjudicating authorities from unemployment benefit offices for a decision on a claimant's availability.
Region 1Number London and South East 5,426 Yorkshire and Humbcrside 1,701 Scotland 1,869 Northern 936 North West 1,639 South West 1,700 West Midlands 2,015 East Midlands 1,777 Wales 1,149 1 Number of availability submissions to the adjudication officer