§ Earl Russellasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will provide further information on the figures in Table 4 of the jobseeker's allowance summary statistics (Office of National Statistics, 22 May 1997), on people not in receipt of contributory jobseeker's allowance; in particular whether they will comment on those entered in the nil column, how many of these were denied income-based jobseeker's allowance because of sufficiency of means, and how many for other reasons and what those reasons were.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security (Baroness Hollis of Heigham)It is not possible to disaggregate the numbers without entitlement to a jobseeker's allowance in the categories requested. Those in the "nil" column will have been entitled to national insurance credits. There will have been a further proportion who made no claim for income-based jobseekeer's allowance, but numbers in this category are not available. The jobseeker's allowance payments system (JSAPS) gives a breakdown of the reasons for an actual award of income-based jobseeker's allowance ceasing. When conversion is completed in October 1997, and all cases have been transferred to JSAPS, the QSE will have information on all terminated income-based jobseeker's allowance claims.