Unemployment Benefit

HC Deb 14 January 1994 vol 235 cc299-300W

Ms Hoey

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people are unemployed but ineligible for state unemployment benefit.

Mr. Burt

Information held relates to the numbers of unemployed people claiming benefit or national insurance credits. The table provides a breakdown of the position of unemployed claimants at 12 August 1993, although a proportion of those not in receipt of unemployment benefit would have been awaiting a decision on their claim.

	Thousands
Total claimants	2,821
Unemployment benefit in payment	532
Unemployment benefit with income support	108

	Thousands
Income support only in payment	1,817
Neither unemployment benefit nor income support in payment	364

Source: Quarterly Analysis of Unemployed Claimants: August 1993—a copy is in the Library.