HC Deb 30 March 1993 vol 222 c106W
Mr. Steinberg

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what information she has on the number of persons with university degrees who have been unemployed for(a) six months, (b) one year and (c) more than one year.

Mr. McLoughlin

The latest estimates (not seasonally adjusted) from the Labour Force Survey for Great Britain relate to autumn 1992, and show that of those people with a degree or equivalent qualification who were unemployed on the ILO definition, 91,000 had been unemployed less than six months, 28,000 from six to 12 months and 48,000 unemployed for over one year.

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