§ Mr. HainTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 24 November 1992,Official Report, columns 628-30, if he willgive the total percentage of economically incentive males aged 16 to 64 years in the valleys programme districts.
§ Mr. David HuntThe latest available figures for the percentage of economically incentive males in the valleys programme districts are for 1991 and are givin in the table.
Percentage of economically inactive population in 1991 (males aged 16 to 64) District1 19812 19913 Dinefwr 14.2 21.7 Llanelli 12.9 22.6 Blaenau Gwent 15.2 22.9 Islwyn 12.9 20.6 Torfaen 12.4 18.5 Cynon Valley 14.4 23.8 Merthyr Tydfil 15.2 23.8 Ogwr 13.7 19.3 Rhondda 16.9 254 Rhymney Valley 13.3 22.8 Taff Ely 11.7 18.6 Brecknock 12.5 18.0 Lliw Valley 12.9 20.1 Neath 12.6 21.6 Port Talbot 14.2 24.7 Swansea 12.8 20.7 Source: Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.
1 District figures include areas outside the Valleys Programme boundary.
2 1981 data are extracted from the 1981 Census.
3 1991 data are extracted from the Census County Monitor series CEN 91 CM.
The 1981 census recorded all students as economically inactive whereas the 1991 census distinguished between those economically active and inactive.
In answering this question, it has become apparent that the estimate of the economically active percentage of the adult male population in Brecknock in 1981 given in my answer on 24 November 1992, at column 629, should have been 87.5 and not 87.3.