Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the increased footfall at (a) Newlands and (b) Laurieston jobcentres resulting from the closure of Langside jobcentre.
Langside Jobcentre, as of 13 December 2017, had 500 claimants.
Although no specific assessment has been made of the increased footfall at Newlands and Laurieston jobcentres, we know that these sites have the capacity to accommodate the movement of claimants from Langside.
This means we will be able to match the increase in footfall by moving our work coaches, who were previously working in Langside, with their claimants to Newlands and Laurieston jobcentres.