HC Deb 08 July 1988 vol 136 c762W
Mr. Frank Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the size of the fall in unemployment since June 1987, based on his Department's estimates of the labour force and of employment for this period.

Mr. Lee

Unemployment change cannot be meaningfully estimated in this way as any such comparison would be affected by a range of definitional and technical factors.