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Benefit cuts, job losses, unclaimed benefits and job creation for individual LAs in 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014

Gareth Morgan
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Rick Jones-Abbas of Denbighshire Welfare Rights and I produced some figures for Welsh LAs of the impact of benefit cuts and job losses following the Budget and CSR cuts.  We did this by using the figures produced by the Fraser of Allander Institute, at the University of Strathclyde,  for Glasgow City Council in 2003 which found that every £10.795million raised in extra benefits supported the creation of 250 jobs across Scotland.

We took that figure and assumed that losing the same amount of benefits would threaten or cut the same number of jobs.

We used the defensible but rough methodology of taking the LA population size as a proportion of the UK population and then assigning the same proportion of the benefit cuts to the LA.

I’ve extended this by:

a) Taking the benefit cuts year by year from 2011 to 2014

b) Taking the ONS mean of total UK unclaimed benefits for each LA in the same proportion and producing a figure for jobs that could be saved through take-up

c) Producing the figures for every LA in the UK (including the appropriate district / county figures where appropriate)

For interest the UK job loss figures on this basis are:

                              2011 / 2012     2012 /2013   2013 / 2014     2014 / 2015         Total
UK Jobs Lost per year   54,056           114,492       159,500           91,408               419,456

An example of the figures is

Authority   County Durham UA
Mid Year Population 2009 (ONS)                        506,400
 
Total Lost Benefit Income 2011 - 2014                 £148,169,860.18
Jobs Lost 2011 - 2014                                       3,438
 
Lost Benefit Income 2011                                   £19,094,899.02
Jobs Lost 2011                                                 443
 
Additional Lost Benefit Income 2012                   £40,443,487.83
Jobs Lost 2012                                                 938
 
Additional Lost Benefit Income 2013                   £56,342,244.95
Jobs Lost 2013                                                 1,307
 
Additional Lost Benefit Income 2014                   £32,289,228.38
Jobs Lost 2014                                                   749
 
 
Unclaimed benefit                                               £77,977,667.01
potential Jobs saved through take-up                       1,809


If anyone would like the figures for their own area then please email me.

[ Edited: 9 Feb 2011 at 08:00 pm by Gareth Morgan ]
Chrisnew
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Hi Gareth


I would be very interested to see the figures for Liverpool if you could oblige

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Karina Knight
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Could you send me the information for Manchester please? I would’ve emailed you directly but I can’t see an email address.

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Karina Knight - 14 February 2011 10:49 AM

Could you send me the information for Manchester please? I would’ve emailed you directly but I can’t see an email address.

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Could I possibly have the figures for Reading?

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Thanks!

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Inverclyde Council, please - and thanks.

Peter Turville
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And Oxfordshire please - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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jane200 - 14 February 2011 01:51 PM

Inverclyde Council, please - and thanks.

Where to?  (I have sent them to Derek)

helen elc
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East Lothain Council please
thanks helen

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helen elc - 15 February 2011 03:21 PM

East Lothain Council please
thanks helen

Can you either email me (address above) or at least tell me your email address.

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Thanks Helen

JohnC
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Hi Gareth, Would be grateful if you could provide me with the information for North Lanarkshire Council


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dundee please


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can you send them for West Dunbartonshire thanks Christine Brodie

Gareth Morgan
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Pretty please, can people either email me (address above) or give their email addresses.  There’s no way to contact them from the site any more.

Nicola
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Hi Gareth,

Please could we have the figures for London Borough of Camden?

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Many thanks.

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Barrow Borough Council please?

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Many thanks.

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Hi Gareth,

I would be grateful if you could supply the updated figures for Glasgow?


thanks very much

(think this forum will owe you one big time!)


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