Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 12 October 2011.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated October 2011
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many claimants flowed off Jobseeker’s Allowance in each month from August 2010 to August 2011. (73591)
Table 1 following shows the number of claimants who flowed off Jobseekers Allowance, resident in the UK, in each month from August 2010 to August 2011. These figures have been standardised onto a 4 and a 1/3 week basis.
National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at:
Table 1: Number of claimants (1) that flowed off jobseeker's allowance—seasonally adjusted | |
Number | |
August 2010 | 324,500 |
September 2010 | 322,600 |
October 2010 | 325,700 |
November 2010 | 329,200 |
December 2010 | 333,700 |
January 2011 | 341,500 |
February 2011 | 328,300 |
March 2011 | 324,700 |
April 2011 | 314,400 |
May 2011 | 291,500 |
June 2011 | 298,300 |
July 2011 | 288,500 |
August 2011 | 297,500 |
(1) These flow figures are collected for 4 or 5 week periods between count dates, the figure above has been standardised to a 4 1/3 week month. Source: Jobcentre Plus Administrative System |
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