§ Mr. PondTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if she will list the number and proportion of(a) men, (b) women and (c) total current family credit claimants broken down by standard industrial classification. [15512]
§ Mr. Keith BradleyThe information is not currently available.
A breakdown by occupation type was previously published in the "Family Credit Quarterly Statistical Enquiry" but, due to concerns over the quality of data, the 141W tables were withdrawn from the February 1997 publication. Action is being taken to improve the reliability of these statistics and they will be re-introduced as soon as possible.