§ Miss Joan Lestorasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will estimate how many married women, unemployed for more than one year and included in the latest published unemployment estimates, would be excluded from the unemployment register under the proposed new method of estimating the numbers of unemployed.
§ Mr. AlisonUnder proposed changes to the method of compiling the unemployment statistics registrants looking for full-time work who are not entitled to unemployment benefit would be excluded from the count, though estimates of their number will be made from time to time.
Current statistics of the registered unemployed by duration of unemployment or entitlement to benefit are not analysed by marital status. As a result, it is not possible to make the required estimate precisely, but it is unlikely that there would be more than about 10,000 women in the specified group.
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