Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications made for Budgeting Loan have been made in each year since 2010; and how many such applications were rejected.
Table 1 provides the number of Budgeting Loan applications received by DWP and the number of refusals made in Great Britain between 2010 and 2013.
Table 1: Budgeting Loan applications and refusals by calendar year from 2010 to 2013
Year | Applications | Refusals |
2010 | 1,616,900 | 427,500 |
2011 | 1,568,300 | 418,700 |
2012 | 1,604,800 | 395,700 |
2013 | 1,412,800 | 341,100 |
Notes
1. These figures do not include applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.
2. The difference between applications received and refusals will not equal the total number of awards made; some applications may have been withdrawn before a decision was made or the decision may not have been made at the time the count was taken.
3. These figures are not the same as the number of individuals making Budgeting Loan applications or being refused a Budgeting Loan in each year. An individual may make multiple applications in any given period.
4. All figures are rounded to the nearest 100.