Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken to process new claims for jobseeker's allowance was in 2014.
There was an increase in the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance claims being cleared within 10 days by 18.9 percentage points, from 71.3 per cent in March 2013 to 90.2 per cent in March 2014.
This is an increase in performance by 22.6 percentage points when compared with year ending April 2009 – March 2010 when it was 67.6%