§ Mr. FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) of 18 January 2001,Official Report, column 384W, on benefit fraud, if he will calculate on the same basis the data for (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) the United Kingdom. [148332]
§ Mr. BayleyThe information is in the table.
Percentage of children living in workless households year England Wales Northern Ireland United Kingdom 1996 19.4 20.4 22.7 19.4 1997 17.8 21.1 19.5 17.9 1998 17.9 19.9 19.0 17.9 1999 17.4 20.4 18.6 17.3 2000 15.6 19.5 20.1 15.8 Notes:
1. Children refers to all children aged under 16.
2. A workless household is a household that includes at least one person of working age where no one is in employment.
3. The percentages given in the reply for England, Wales and Northern Ireland have not been adjusted for the small proportion of households where the household economic activity is not known An adjustment has been made to the UK figures, so the methodology for calculating these figures is slightly different.
Source:
Labour Force Survey, Spring Quarters (covering March to May). The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a quarterly sample survey of over 60,000 households in the United Kingdom.