§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest statistics of the periods of disqualification for benefit for those who have voluntarily left employment. [25427]
§ Miss WiddecombeResponsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service under its chief executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter to M. E. G. Fogden to Mr. Paul Flynn dated 23 May 1995:
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question about statistics held on the periods of disqualification of benefit for clients who have voluntarily left employment.The regular statistics regarding disqualifications are broken down into subjects, not the length of disqualification and I am therefore unable to provide the information you have requested. I am however able to advise that the number of decisions affecting clients who have left employment voluntarily during the three months to 31 December 1994 was 58,425. Of these, 50.2 percent were Adverse Decisions.These figures are taken from the unemployment benefit statistics. A copy of this quarterly publication which is an Analysis of Adjudication Officers' Decisions has been placed in the Library.A one-off survey, which was part of a larger project looking at adjudication issues carried out in late 1994, gave a snap shot picture of average periods of disqualification during October 1994. The findings showed that for those who left their employment voluntarily, 25 percent were disqualified for the maximum period of 6 months.I hope this is helpful.