Social Security Benefits: Unemployment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the claimant count is for people receiving unemployment-related benefits.
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson
The independent Office of National Statistics (ONS) publishes data on the number of people claiming Jobseekers Allowance and out of work Universal Credit. This can be found here: CLA01: Claimant Count - Office for National Statistics
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