At March 2013, there were 10,118,298 loans outstanding relating to 2,940,087 customers. The table below indicates the age of loans and their volumes and values.<\/p>
<\/p>
Age of loan<\/p><\/td> | Loans<\/p><\/td> | Value £000<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||
<\/p><\/td> | <\/p><\/td> | <\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||
Five years and over<\/p><\/td> | 1,837,896<\/p><\/td> | 218,840<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||
Between one and five years<\/p><\/td> | 5,898,911<\/p><\/td> | 595,737<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||
Less than one year<\/p><\/td> | 2,381,491<\/p><\/td> | 373,729<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||
Total<\/p><\/td> | 10,118,298<\/p><\/td> | 1,188,306<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> The Department pursues all debts available for recovery. Where we have difficulty with locating a customer and obtaining payment from them we will employ a private sector company to do this for us; for year ending March 2013 we paid £880,000 and recovered £6.1m.<\/p> <\/p> Data has been included for the financial year 2012-13, the latest year for which the audited Social Fund White Paper Account is available. The 2013-14 Account will be publicly available from July 2014.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/strong><\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many outstanding cases of social fund loan repayments his Department is curretnly pursuing; in what year each such loan was issued; what estimate he has made of the total value of such outstanding repayments; and how much his Department is paying a debt management service to pursue such repayments.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many repeat employment and support allowance claimants have been placed in the work-related activity group with the prognosis that engagement in work is unlikely in the longer term since October 2008.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/45610/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The information requested to answer both questions are shown in the table below:<\/p> <\/p> Outcomes of functional assessments by prognosis of 2 years or more for the ESA work-related activity group, Great Britain: October 2008 \u2013 September 2013<\/p> <\/p> <\/p><\/td> WRAG: Claimants with a prognosis of 2 years or more<\/p><\/td><\/tr> New Claims - Initial assessment<\/p><\/td> 11,800<\/p><\/td><\/tr> New Claims \u2013 Repeat assessment<\/p><\/td> 19,700<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> Source: Data in the tables above is derived from administrative data held by the DWP and assessment data provided by Atos Healthcare.<\/p> <\/p> Notes:<\/p> 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.<\/p> 2. The outcome recorded is the final DWP Decision Maker's decision or the recommendation made by the Atos Healthcare Professional where the Decision Maker's decision is not yet available.<\/p> 3. The data presented above comes from benefit claims data held by the Department for Work and Pensions. It related to new and repeat ESA claims. In October 2008, ESA replaced IB for new claims. Starting with a trial in October 2010, and reaching a full scale national roll-out in April 2011, existing IB claims began to be phased out, with claimants reassessed to see if they qualify for ESA instead.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new employment and support allowance claimants have been placed in the work-related activity group with the prognosis that engagement in work is unlikely in the longer term since October 2008.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance was given to Jobcentre Plus offices on supporting people internally rather than externally following the recent removal of warm phones.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department collects information from Jobcentre Plus offices on the number of people referred to local advice providers to use telephones.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Ministerial Statement of 27 March 2014, Official Report, columns 56-8WS, on Atos, how much Atos has paid to his Department in order to exit its contract early; and whether he plans for the new contract provide for payments calculated on the number of assessments completed.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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