Labour Statistics

HC Deb 28 June 1994 vol 245 cc538-9W

18. Mr. John Marshall

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment by how much unemployment has changed in each EU country since January 1993.

Mr. David Hunt

Claimant unemployment in the United Kingdom is down by over 300,000 since January 1993, while registered unemployment in the rest of Europe rose by 1.5 million.

19. Mr. O'Hara

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many new full-time equivalent jobs have been created during the past 15 months.

Miss Widdecombe

The Department does not believe that full-time equivalence is a meaningful concept. However, the labour force survey shows that total hours worked rose by 0.6 per cent. over the year to winter 1993.

Employees and self-employed: Great Britain (thousands)
	Male	Female
	Full-time	Part-time	Total	Full-time	Part-time	Total
June 1979	—1	—1	14,762	—1	—1	9,805
September 1984	12,716	919	13,635	5,574	4,205	9,779
March 1994	11,602	1,292	12,895	5,986	5,165	11,151
Number of regions where employees have increased (September 1984 to March 1994)	—1	—1	0	10	11	10
1Not available.

Mr. Keith Hill

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people have been unemployed for(a) more than one year and (b) more than two years in (i) Greater London and (ii) the Streatham parliamentary constituency; and what were the corresponding figures for each year since 1979.

Miss Widdecombe

Information on the levels of claimant unemployment by duration is available from 1983, on the unadjusted basis only, for the months of January, April, July and October. It can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the Library.

Mr. Allason

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what the unemployment figures are for Devon for May 1994; and what percentage change they represent on the figures for May 1992.

Miss Widdecombe

Unadjusted claimant unemployment figures in the county of Devon stood at 44,405 in May 1994, a fall of 1.6 per cent. since May 1992. However, between May 1993 and May 1994, unemployment fell by over 11 per cent.

28. Mr. Canavan

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total number of unemployed people in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

In May, seasonally adjusted claimant unemployment stood at 2,661,000, a fall of 258,000 on a year ago.

21. Mr. Amess

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people are currently unemployed in the Basildon constituency; and what was the figure one year ago.

Miss Widdecombe

Between May 1993 and May 1994 unadjusted claimant unemployment in Basildon fell by 959 from 6,500 to 5,541.