National Insurance Credits (Hansard, 20 October 1994)

§ Miss Widdecombe

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 M.E.G. Fogden to Mr. Terry Lewis, dated 20 October 1994: The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question about the total number of persons, who are currently in receipt of Class 1 National Insurance credits only, during unemployment, in each unemployment benefit office in Greater Manchester. The information you have requested is not fully available. However the attached table gives the number of persons within each office in Greater Manchester, who were registered as unemployed and receiving neither unemployment benefit nor Income Support on 12 May. The vast majority, but not all, of these persons will have been receiving Class 1 National Insurance credits only. More recent data can only be obtained at disproportionate cost. 328W

Table to show the number of persons not in receipt of unemployment benefit nor income support, during unemployment, in each benefit office in Greater Manchester on Thursday 12 May 1994
Office	Number (See note below)
Altrincham	509
Hyde	325
Marple	142
Stockport A	330
Wythenshawe	299
Stockport B	332
Stockport C	309
Rusholme	190
Rochdale	490
Ashton-in-Makerfield	157
Ashton-under-Lyne	261
Atherton & Tyldesley	160
Bolton A	200
Bury A	422
Bolton B	284
Bolton C	268
Denton	187
Eccles	187
Failsworth	256
Didsbury	365
Stretford B	527
Farnworth	127
Heywood	211
Horwich	123
Irlam	71
Leigh	318
Levenshulme	239
Little Borough	102
Middleton	155
Newton Heath	304
Oldham B	700
Swinton	172
Prestwich	335
Radcliffe	115
Manchester C	179
Salford A	347
Hindley	109
Worsley	198
West Houghton	90
Wigan A	585
Wigan B	257

Note:

The vast majority of these persons will have been in receipt of a Class 1 National Insurance credit at the time.