Women with Children

HC Deb 11 June 1990 vol 174 cc54-5W

Ms. Richardson

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest estimated figures for the number of women with children aged under five years who do no paid work in Britain.

Mr. Nicholls

Preliminary estimates from the labour force survey for spring 1989 show that there were in Great Britain 1,792,000 women of working age, 16 to 59 years old, whose youngest dependent child was aged under five and who did no paid work in the survey week.