HC Deb 28 January 1994 vol 236 c451W
Mr. Wicks

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish the latest figures showing(a) the number of children living in families with an unemployed head and (b) the number of children living in families with a long-term unemployed head of household.

Mr. Burt

The labour force survey estimates that 1,133,000 dependent children live in families with an unemployed1 head and that 452,000 dependent children2 live in families with a long-term3 unemployed head.

  • 1 Unemployment defined by the International Labour Organisation.
  • 2 Children defined as being under 16-years-old and 16 to 19 years on full-time education.
  • 3 Long-term unemployed defined as 12 months or more.

Source: Labour force survey for Great Britain, spring 1993.