Speeches

Frank Field – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-03-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of new claims for (a) jobseeker’s allowance and (b) employment and support allowance were processed within (i) 10 days and (ii) 16 days in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.

Priti Patel

The information requested is shown in the table below.

Mar 2015

Apr 2015

May 2015

Jun 2015

Jul 2015

Aug 2015

Sep 2015

Oct 2015

Nov 2015

Dec 2015

Jan 2016

Feb 2016

ESA claims processed in 16 days

75,437

61,547

57,693

64,304

66,640

57,921

67,286

68,608

66,937

59,671

65,356

65,799

ESA % claims processed in 16 days

94.3%

94.0%

93.6%

94.2%

94.2%

94.2%

94.0%

93.5%

94.0%

93.0%

94.0%

93.8%

ESA claims processed in 10 days

71,039

57,797

54,564

60,980

63,350

54,751

63,448

64,874

63,172

56,129

62,445

61,682

ESA % claims processed in 10 days

88.8%

88.3%

88.5%

89.3%

89.6%

89.1%

88.6%

88.5%

88.7%

87.5%

89.8%

87.9%

JSA claims processed in 16 days

162,277

145,388

128,763

140,397

152,020

125,789

140,787

140,113

129,424

106,747

135,544

119,028

JSA % claims processed in 16 days

96.9%

97.1%

97.7%

97.9%

97.7%

97.7%

97.6%

96.9%

97.6%

97.8%

98.0%

95.5%

JSA claims processed in 10 days

152,973

137,019

122,136

132,386

142,162

118,331

130,165

130,794

122,034

100,038

125,329

102,447

JSA % claims processed in 10 days

91.4%

91.5%

92.6%

92.3%

91.4%

91.9%

90.2%

90.5%

92.1%

91.7%

90.6%

82.2%

Source

Management Information System Programme (MISP). MISP is a Departmental performance management, data capture and reporting tool.