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Social Fund: Airdrie

Answer

In the case of budgeting loans, applicants are asked to tick which of seven categories they need help for, but are not asked to specify the items they require. Television sets would come under the category 'to buy furniture or household equipment'. Data are not available on the number of awards for each category.The number of crisis loans or community care grants initially awarded for the purpose of buying television sets over the value of (i) £500 or (ii) £1,000 to residents of Airdrie and Shotts constituency in each of the financial years 2005-06 to 2009-10 was extremely low, being recorded as nil or negligible."Notes:""1. The information provided is Management Information. Our preference is to answer all parliamentary questions using Official/National Statistics but in this case we only have Management Information available. It is not quality assured to the same extent as Official/National Statistics and there are some issues with the data, for example, the information given does not include applications which were processed clerically and had not been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System by the end of the relevant financial year.""2. Data are available for initial awards only. No information is available on the number of awards of the type described which were made after review.""3. Exact numbers have not been given for data protection reasons. 'Nil or negligible' means less than five.""Source:""Department for Work and Pensions Social Fund Policy, Budget and Management Information System."

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

48854; 526 c408W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Social Fund Airdrie

Link

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