§ Mr. NellistTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will estimate for 1988 and 1989(a) the number of claimants without paid jobs who wanted full-time jobs, (b) the number who wanted part-time jobs, (c) the number who had no preference and (d) the number who did not want a job who (i) had not looked for a job in the last week, (ii) had not looked for a job in the last four weeks, (iii) were not available for work within the next two weeks, (iv) were in categories (i) and (iii), (v) were in categories (ii) and (iii), breaking the estimates down by sex and according to whether the main reason for not seeking work in the last week was (1) looking after family/home, (2) long-term sick/disabled, (3) believed no jobs available, (4) retired, (5) temporarily sick, on holiday, awaiting results of job applications or waiting to start a job already obtained, (6) did not want/need work, (7) studying, (8) not yet started looking, (9) other reasons/no reply/not applicable and (10) all reasons.
§ Mr. Nicholls[holding answer 30 April 1990]: The available information is given in the tables. It is not possible to provide a reliable analysis of these figures by reason for not seeking work in the last week.
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Claimants (aged 18 and over) not in employment, Spring 1988 Great Britain (i) Not looked for work in reference week '000s (ii) Not looked for work in last four weeks '000s (iii) Not available to start work '000s (iv) Both (i) and (iii) '000s (v) Both (ii) and (iii) '000s All persons (a) Would like a full-time job 260 150 60 50 40 (b) Would like a part-time job 100 60 20 20 20 (c) No preference 40 30 10 2 2 (d) Does not want a job 290 1 1 1 1 Men (a) Would like a full-time job 200 120 40 30 30 (b) Would like a part-time job 40 20 2 2 2 (c) No preference 30 20 2 2 2 (d) Does not want a job 190 1 1 1 1 Women (a) Would like a full-time job 50 30 20 10 10 (b) Would like a part-time job 70 40 20 20 10 (c) No preference 20 2 2 2 2 (d) Does not want a job 100 1 1 1 1 1 Not asked. 2 Less than 10,000. Notes: Table excludes people who said they would like work as self employed.
Figures are individually rounded to the nearest 10,000.
The reconciliation of the claimant count with the claimant figures obtained from the 1989 Labour Force Survey has been affected by an improvement in the design of the questionnaire and also by the change in benefit regulations for under 18 year in September
1988. As a result the reconciliations for both 1988 and 1989 have been restricted to claimants aged 18 and over to enable valid comparisons to be made between the two years.
Source: Derived with reference to both the claimant count and the 1988 Labour Force Survey results.
Claimants (aged 18 and over) not in employment. Spring 1989 Great Britain (i) Not looked for work in reference week '000s (ii) Not looked for work in last four weeks '000s (iii) Not available to start work '000s (iv) Both (i) and (iii) '000s (v) Both (ii) and (iii) '000s All persons (a) Would like a full-time job 190 110 50 30 30 (b) Would like a part-time job 50 30 20 10 10 (c) No preference 30 20 10 2 2 (d) Does not want a job 130 1 1 1 1 Men (a) Would like a full-time job 140 80 30 20 20 (b) Would like a part-time job 20 2 2 2 2 (c) No preference 20 10 2 2 2 (d) Does not want a job 80 1 1 1 1 Women (a) Would like a full-time job 40 20 20 10 2 (b) Would like a part-time job 30 20 10 10 2 (c) No preference 10 2 2 2 2 (d) Does not want a job 60 1 1 1 1 1 Not asked. 2 Less than 10,000. Notes: Table excludes people who said they would like work as self employed.
Figures are individually rounded to the nearest 10,000.
The reconciliation of the claimant count with the claimant figures obtained from the 1989 Labour Force Survey has been affected by an improvement in the design of the questionnaire and also by the change in benefit regulations for under 18 year in September
1988. As a result the reconciliation has been restricted to claimants aged 18 and over.
Source: Derived with reference to both the claimant count and the 1989 Labour Force Survey results.