§ Dr. GodmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many(a) disabled men and (b) disabled women in (i) the parliamentary constituency of Greenock and Port Glasgow and (ii) Scotland as a whole were registered as unemployed at the most convenient date.
§ Mr. Michael Forsyth[holding answer 14 June 1994]: The labour force survey asks people of working age if they currently have a health problem or disability which limits the kind of paid work they can do. Estimates based on answers to this question will include people with short-term or minor health problems and disabilities as well as those registered as disabled.
The latest LFS estimates for summer 1993 show that there were 26,000 such men and 10,000 such women who were International Labour Organisation unemployed and living in Scotland. The information is not available for parliamentary constituencies.