§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people are(a) employed and (b) self employed in (i) Lancashire and (ii) Chorley; and what percentage are sole traders. [157091]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Lindsay Hoyle, dated 1 March 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about employment and self-employment. (157091)The attached table gives estimates of the number of people employed and self-employed and the percentage of self-employed people who are sole traders in Lancashire and Chorley. Estimates are taken from the ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS), for the three month period ending November 2003.708WAs with any statistical sample survey, estimates for the LFS are subject to sampling variability.
Number of employed and self employed people1, and percentages of self-employed people who are sole traders2 in Lancashire and
Chorley: September to November 2003
Lancashire Charley All people in employment3 564,000 47,000 Of these, number who are: Employees 491,000 39,000 Self employed 69,000 4— Sole traders2 45,000 4— Sole traders as a percentage of self-employed 64.7 4— 1 People aged 16 and over 2 Self employed with no employees. 3 Includes employees, the self employed, unpaid family workers and people on Government employment and training programmes 4 Sample size too small for reliable estimate Source: ONS-Labour Force Survey (Estimates are not seasonally adjusted and have not been interim-adjusted to reflect 2001 Census results)