HC Deb 26 April 1993 vol 223 cc305-6W
Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many claimants for unemployment benefit were advised to seek sickness or invalidity benefit instead in each month since January 1992.

Mr. McLoughlin

Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service agency under its chief executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter from Mr. M. Fogden to Mr. Frank Dobson, dated 26 April 1993: As the Employment Service is an Executive Agency, the Secretary of State has asked me to write to you direct to respond to your Parliamentary Question to her about the

The detailed results of inspections carried out by the wages inspectorate and which do not reach court, are disclosed only to the employers and workers concerned.

number of clients on Unemployment Benefit (UB) who were advised to seek sickness or invalidity benefit instead in each month since January 1992. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Chief Executive of the Agency. The statistics in the attached table show the number of people claiming UB who left the register to start another, more appropriate, benefit in each month since April 1992. This information was only collected quarterly prior to that date. Figures are not held centrally on the numbers moving into each of the alternative benefits. As you will appreciate, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit are only two in a wide range of benefits to which former UB claimants can transfer. As decided by the Administration Committee of the House of Commons, Chief Executive replies to written Parliamentary Questions will now be published in the Official Report. I will also place a copy of this letter in the Library of the House.

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Q/E Number
March 1992 24,432
April 1992 8,029
May 1992 9,581
June 1992 8,641
July 1992 10,142
August 1992 8,174
September 1992 7,808
October 1992 10,231
November 1992 8,855
December 1992 6,055
January 1993 8,824
February 1993 8,902
March 1993 8,405

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