§ Mr. Fosterasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) if he will publish the number of long term unemployed categorised by age group and sex;
(2) what is the current number of long term unemployed.
§ Mr. Jim LesterThe following table gives for 5 April, the latest date for which the quarterly analysis is available, the number of people in Great Britain who had been registered as unemployed for more than 52 weeks, analysed by age group and sex.
Age groups Males Females Under 18 1,871 2,111 18 2,552 2,493 19 5,145 4,134 20–24 24,994 13,603 25–29 25,381 7,536 30–34 24,721 5,007 35–44 43,179 8,467 45–49 23,667 6,134 50–54 27,725 8,467 55–59 34,521 11,425 60 and over 63,126 493 Total 276,882 69,913