Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to publish information on the (a) the number of staff, (b) number of clients seen and (c) the average length of time in processing a claim at each job centre in the UK for each of the last five years.

There are currently no plans to publish this information at Jobcentre level.

The Department routinely publishes information on its performance on Gov.uk in publications including the DWP Annual Report and Accounts, DWP benefits statistical summaries and DWP single departmental plan:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2016-to-2017

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-statistical-summaries-2017

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-work-and-pensions-single-departmental-plan/department-for-work-and-pensions-single-departmental-plan

Stat-Xplore also provides a guided way to explore DWP benefit statistics, currently holding data relating to 16 different benefits/programmes::

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html