§ Mr. Frank FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many claims for unemployment benefit in the last available year the claimant(a) gained the adult dependent addition and (b) refused the addition on the grounds that the claimant's dependents earnings were above the threshold.
§ Mr. Roger EvansThe latest available information is that the number of claimants with an adult dependency increase to unemployment benefit in Great Britain, as at May 1994, was 73,000 and, as at November 1993, was 82,000. Figures are for a point in time, rounded to the nearest thousand, and based on a 5 per cent sample. They are derived from the "Half yearly analysis of unemployed claimants", a copy of which is in the Library.
Information on the number of refusals of adult dependency increases by reason is not available.