HC Deb 17 May 1993 vol 225 cc55-6W
15. Mr. Hain

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give the latest percentage and actual figures for economically inactive adult males.

Mr. David Hunt

The 1991 census recorded 348,356 aged 16 or over as economically inactive which includes all those retired, permanently sick, students with a job in the week before the census and other inactive. This represents 32.4 per cent. of all males aged 16 or over.

Mr. Hain

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 11 May,Official Report, column 444, if he will express the figures for residents aged 16 years or over classified as economically inactive in each (a) district and (b) county in Wales as a percentage of their respective populations.

Mr. David Hunt

The information requested is given in the following table:

Percentage residents aged 16 and over economically inactive
Percentage
Alyn and Deeside 37.0
Colwyn 49.5
Delyn 39.8
Glyndwr 42.8
Rhuddlan 49.4
Wrexham Maelor 41.7
CLWYD 42.8
Carmarthen 44.5
Ceredigion 46.2
Dinefwr 48.4
Llanelli 49.9
Preseli Pembrokeshire 43.9
South Pembrokeshire 46.3
DYFED 46.5
Blaenau Gwent 47.9
Islwyn 44.1
Monmouth 40.3
Newport 42.0
Torfaen 43.0
GWENT 43.3
Aberconwy 46.7
Percentage
Arfon 44.0
Dwyfor 48.2
Meirionnydd 45.7
Ynys Mon-Isle of Anglesey 45.6
GWYNEDD 45.8
Cynon Valley 48.4
Merthyr Tydfil 48.5
Ogwr 44.2
Rhondda 51.0
Rhymney Valley 45.2
Taff-Ely 40.2
MID GLAMORGAN 45.7
Brecknock 43.8
Montgomeryshire 39.9
Radnor 42.5
POWYS 41.8
Cardiff 41.6
Vale of Glamorgan 41.1
SOUTH GLAMORGAN 41.4
Lliw Valley 45.3
Neath 47.3
Port Talbot 49.7
Swansea 46.1
WEST GLAMORGAN 46.7

SourceOPCS Census County Report Series Part 1.