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Jobseeker's Allowance: North East

Answer

I have been asked to reply.The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Jil Matheson, dated November 2009:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking what the average period during which jobseeker's allowance (JSA) claimants resident in (a) Houghton & Washington East constituency and (b) Sunderland received JSA was in each of the last 5 years. (301726)""The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) is taken from the Jobcentre Plus administrative system. The length of a claim has been defined as the time between the start of an individual's claim and that claim ending. Table 1 shows the median length of completed claims (off-flows) during the October count period of the last 5 years."

Table 1. Median length of completed claims (off-flows) of Jobseeker's Allowance for claimants resident in Houghton and Washington, East parliamentary constituency and Sunderland
Months
	Houghton and Washington, East	Sunderland
October 2005	7.6	9,6
October 2006	7.8	10.6
October 2007	9.5	9.7
October 2008	7.5	8.3
October 2009	12.8	12.3
Source:
Jobcentre Plus administrative system

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

501 c392W; 301726

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Unemployment North East

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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