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date	19/02/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	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 paid within 10 days of a claim being made in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	27490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2016 answer text <p>The information you have requested is currently not available.</p><p> </p><p>The department does not hold information on time taken to make a payment for jobseeker’s allowance, or employment and support allowance.</p><p>Additional breakdowns will be included in the Universal Credit official statistics as quality assurance of data from the Universal Credit systems progresses during 2016.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 27489 question first answered 25/02/2016 15:23:14 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 47006 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

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registered interest
date	09/07/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2015 to Question 5753, how many applications for Short Term Benefit Advance in 2014 were rejected; and for what reasons such applications were rejected.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	6454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The vast majority of refusals are either because (i) there was a doubt about whether the claimant would be entitled to the benefit being claimed and, therefore, we could not be sure that there was any benefit to advance or (ii) actual benefit was paid instead, which is a better outcome for the claimant.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/07/2015 11:05:46 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 14191 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead