Written question asked by Emily Thornberry (Labour) on Thursday, 11 June 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 15 June 2015. It was answered by Justin Tomlinson (Conservative) on Wednesday, 17 June 2015 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Housing Benefit: Islington
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseeker's allowance claimants aged 18 to 21 years in (a) the London Borough of Islington and (b) Islington South and Finsbury constituency who are currently in receipt of housing benefit have children.
- Answer
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The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The information that is available refers to Housing Benefit (HB) recipients whose claim is passported, that is for those who receive income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance.
This information including HB recipients by age and number of children can be found at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk
Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 2201
- Session
- 2015-16
- Subjects
- Children Housing benefit Jobseeker's allowance Young people Islington
- Contains statistics
- Yes
- Link
- View this Written question on www.parliament.uk
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- 2016-07-05 17:40:13 +0100
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