§ Mr. Peter BottomleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many and which United Kingdom constituencies have higher unemployment rates than(a) Germany and (b) France. [15673]
§ Mrs. Angela KnightI have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the chief executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
464WLetter from Dennis Roberts to Mr. Peter Bottomley dated 18 February 1997:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked the director of the Office for National Statistics to reply to your recent question on those parliamentary constituencies with a higher rate of unemployment than Germany and France. The Director has asked me to reply in his absence.Unemployment rates by Parliamentary Constituency are not available for either the claimant count or the internationally comparable ILO measure of unemployment derived from the Labour Force Survey.