Standing Spending Assessment (Jobseeker's Allowance)

HC Deb 22 January 1997 vol 288 c653W

Mr. Rooker

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how claimants of the jobseeker's allowance are to be taken into account in calculating local authority standard spending assessment levels for 1997–98. [11944]

Sir Paul Beresford

The proposed standard spending assessments for 1997–98 use data on numbers of unemployed over a three-year period in 1993–96 and income support claimants in 1995. They therefore predate the introduction of the jobseeker's allowance.