§ Mr. BoyesTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will produce a table showing the working population of each EC country as a percentage of the total population for the latest figures available.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe available information is as follows:
Total employment as a percentage of the population aged 15 to 64, 19911 Per cent. Denmark 76 Portugal 71 United Kingdom 69 Germany 65 Nrtherlands 63 Luxembourg 61 France 60 Belgium 57 Italy 56 Greece 55 Ireland 52 Spain 49 Source: OECD, except United Kingdom (Employment Department).
1 1991 is the latest year for which comparable data are available.
§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people in the United Kingdom are unemployed and are not receiving benefit; and if he will make a statement.
§ Miss WiddecombeThe latest estimates from the labour force survey for summer—June to August—1993 are that there were 1,099,000 people in the United Kingdom classified as unemployed on the internationally standard ILO measure of unemployment, but not claiming unemployment related benefits; these estimates include spring 1993 data for Northern Ireland. Conversely, there were 1,038,000 claimants that were not ILO unemployed, so that the level of unemployment on the internationally standard definition—2,981,000—was only 61,000 higher, not seasonally adjusted, than the level shown by the claimant count for the equivalent period—2,919,000.