§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many disabled(a) men and (b) women living in the Greater London area were registered as unemployed at the most convenient date.
§ Miss WiddecombeThe labour force survey asks people of working age if they currently have a health problem or disability which limits the kind of paid work that they can do. Estimates based on answers to this question will include people with short-term health problems and disabilities as well as those registered as disabled.
287WThe latest labour force survey estimates for summer 1993 show that there were 40,000 such men and 17,000 such women who were International Labour Organisation unemployed and living in Greater London.
§ Mr. PickthallTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many married women in employment have children of school age.
§ Miss WiddecombeEstimates from the labour force survey show there were 2,178,000 married women with children aged 5 to 15 in employment in Great Britain at autumn 1993.
§ Mr. PrescottTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the percentage of claimants unemployed who have been unemployed for at least 12 months in(a) the 20 electoral wards with the highest claimant unemployment rate in the United Kingdom and (b) the 20 electoral wards with the lowest claimant unemployment rate in the United Kingdom.
§ Miss WiddecombeThe smallest areas for which official unemployment rates are calculated are self-contained labour markets known as travel-to-work areas. Information at ward level relates only to the level of claimant unemployment and an analysis by duration is available for the months of January, April, July and October. Data are on the unadjusted basis and can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the Library.