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Kirsty Styles
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Dear Ms Styles
Freedom of Information Request No 2362 (2009)
I am now in a position to answer your request for information received on 17th November 2009.
You asked for:
1) The most up-to-date unemployment statistics for the UK and for Preston, Lancashire, including single parents claiming benefits, incapacity and jobseekers allowance claimants
Section 21 of the Act allows us to direct you to information which is already reasonably accessible to you. The Department publishes a wide range of statistics on benefit claimants and expenditure on its website www.dwp.gov.uk and on the Nomis website www.nomisweb.co.uk , which is the Office for National Statistics' official website of labour market statistics, both of which allow you to construct your own tables.
In answer to part 1 of your request, to produce statistics on how many people are currently claiming Income Support, in your requested areas, click on the following link www.nomisweb.co.uk.
Select Advanced Query in the Detailed Statistics panel.
Select the dataset DWP benefits then select benefit payments Income Support in the Options panel on the left, make your choices to construct the table you require.
In this case, you will need to make a minimum selection for Geography, and date.
Firstly select geography from the side menu, and then select countries and some.
From the drop down menu next to within, select UK.
Next select local authorities district/unitary, from the drop down menu select North West, then place a tick in the box Preston.
Next select local authorities county/unitary, from the drop down menu select North West, and then place a tick in the box Lancashire.
Then select Stat group, and place a tick in the box marked lone parents.
To select dates, choose date from options list, tick the dates you require.
Click on Download data to produce your table.
This will produce figures for the number of Income support (lone parents) claimants in Preston the UK and Lancashire.
For data on Jobseekers Allowance claimants which are Lone parents, follow this link
http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/jsa/lone_parents/JSALP_Nov09.xls
With regard to part 2 of your request, to produce statistics on how many people are currently claiming Jobseekers Allowance, in your requested areas, click on the following link www.nomisweb.co.uk.
Select Advanced Query in the Detailed Statistics panel.
Select the dataset Claimant count then select Claimant count rates and proportions In the Options panel on the left, make your choices to construct the table you require.
In this case, you will need to make a minimum selection for Geography, and date.
Firstly select geography from the side menu, and then select countries and some.
From the drop down menu next to within, select UK.
Next select local authorities district/unitary, from the drop down menu select North West, then place a tick in the box Preston.
Next select local authorities county/unitary, from the drop down menu select North West, and then place a tick in the box Lancashire.
To select dates, choose date from options list, tick the dates you require.
Click on Download data to produce your table.
This will produce figures for the number of Jobseekers allowance claimants in the UK, Preston and Lancashire.
In answer to part 3 of your request, to produce statistics on how many people are currently claiming Incapacity Benefits, in your requested areas, click on the following link www.nomisweb.co.uk.
Select Advanced Query in the Detailed Statistics panel.
Select the dataset DWP Benefits then select Benefit payments incapacity benefits. In the Options panel on the left, make your choices to construct the table you require.
In this case, you will need to make a minimum selection for Geography, and date.
Firstly select geography from the side menu, and then select countries and some.
From the drop down menu next to within, select UK.
Next select local authorities district/unitary, from the drop down menu select North West, then place a tick in the box Preston.
Next select local authorities county/unitary, from the drop down menu select North West, and then place a tick in the box Lancashire.
To select dates, choose date from options list, tick the dates you require.
Click on Download data to produce your table.
This will produce figures for the number of incapacity benefit claimants in the UK, Preston and Lancashire.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
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FOI ref no 2362 (2009)
14 December 2009