§ Mr. WillettsTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of adults aged 25 to 49 years are in employment in the UK; and what the comparable figures are for other EU countries. [177910]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl to Mr. David Willetts, dated 14 June 2004:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about employment in the UK and other EU countries for 25–49 year olds. I am replying in his absence. (177910)
The attached table gives the latest available figures for each EU member state.
The UK figure refers to December 2003-February 2004 and is taken from the latest UK Labour Force Survey. The other figures are the latest available European LFS data taken from Eurostat's New Cronos database. The figures are not seasonally adjusted.
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Employment rate for 25–49 year olds for the UK and EU Country Latest reference period available Employment rate
Austria April-June 2003 85.5 Belgium October-December 2003 79.4 Cyprus April-June 2003 83.3 Czech Republic October-December 2003 81.3 Denmark October-December 2003 84.2 Estonia October-December 2003 79.7 Finland October-December 2003 81.6 France October-December 2003 79.9 Germany April-June 2003 78.8
Employment rate for 25–49 year olds for the UK and EU Country Latest reference period available Employment rate
Greece October-December 2003 73.9 Hungary October-December 2003 75.5 Ireland October-December 2003 77.7 Italy October-December 2003 71.9 Spain October-December 2003 73.3 Latvia October-December 2003 78.9 Lithuania October-December 2003 79.4 Luxembourg January-March 2003 77.6 Malta October-December 2003 63.7 Netherlands October-December 2003 83.5 Poland October-December 2003 70.5 Portugal October-December 2003 82.5 Slovak Republic October-December 2003 76.6 Slovenia October-December 2003 85.4 Sweden October-December 2003 83.2 United Kingdom December 2003-February 2004 81.2