HL Deb 16 April 1986 vol 473 cc749-50WA
Lord Brougham and Vaux

asked Her Majesty's Government:

When the results of the 1985 Labour Force Survey are likely to be published.

Lord Young of Graffham

Work is in hand to produce a range of preliminary results from the 1985 Labour Force Survey similar to those for 1984 which appeared inEmployment Gazette in May 1985. In the absence of an Employment Gazette in April, and to avoid undue delay, I intend to issue the preliminary results of the 1985 survey in a press release on 23rd April: they will also appear in an article in the May Gazette in the usual way.

The department announced on 19th February that its employment estimates were to be revised in the light of the 1985 Labour Force Survey and the 1984 Census of Employment. However, the census timetable has been delayed because of operational difficulties, and results are not now expected before the late summer. It has therefore been decided to revise the emploment estimates in light of the 1985 Labour Force Survey results without waiting for the Census of Employment results. These revised estimates were published in the labour market press notice which was released earlier today. Subsequent revision may be necessary when the census results become available later in the year.