Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2015-12-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2015 to Question 19711, what the number of such claimants was in (a) 2010-11, (B) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13.
Priti Patel
a) DWP does not hold data on the number of ESOL learning aims started by claimants in the 2010/11 academic year.
b) The 2011/12 statistics can be found in Table 4 of the joint DWP-BIS ‘Further Education for Benefit Claimants: June 2013’ official statistics publication – see https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-for-benefit-claimants-june-2013.
c) The 2012/13 statistics can be found in Table 4 of the joint DWP-BIS ‘Further Education for Benefit Claimants 2012 to 2013’ official statistics publication – see https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-for-benefit-claimants-2012-to-2013.
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