Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 21 April 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
(1) if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of increasing jobseeker's allowance by (a) 100 per cent. for claimants with an unbroken work record of more than five years and (b) 200 per cent. for claimants with an unbroken work record of more than 10 years immediately prior to their claim in each of the next five years;
(2) how many people claiming contribution-based jobseeker's allowance had an unbroken work record of more than (a) five, (b) 10 and (c) 15 years immediately prior to claiming in each quarter of the last five years.
DWP do not hold this information centrally and it could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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