§ Mr. HainTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the number and percentage of households which have nobody in work for(a) the United Kingdom and (b) each region.[2817]
§ Mrs. Angela KnightThe information falls within the responsibility of the chief executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Peter Hain, dated 25 November 1996:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked me to reply as the Director of the Office for National Statistics to your recent question on the number of households with nobody in employment.The available information for the United Kingdom is shown in the attached table.
Non-pensioner households1 with nobody in employment by region (Spring 1996) Thousands Percentage of all such households United Kingdom 3,256 18.3 Great Britain 3,163 18.2 England 2,697 18.1 South East 958 17.0 Greater London 544 22.8 Rest of South East 414 12.7 East Anglia 95 14.9 South West 210 15.0 West Midlands 289 18.5 East Midlands 193 15.5 Yorkshire and Humberside 282 18.5 North West 409 21.2 North 209 22.5 Wales 184 21.5 Scotland 334 20.6 Northern Ireland 93 22.1 1Excludes one-person pensioner households and households of two adults without children where at least one person was over pension age. Source:
Labour Force Survey, Office for National Statistics.
§ Mr. WareingTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many full-time jobs have been created in(a) the United Kingdom and (b) each other member state of the European Union in each of the last six years. [4771]
§ Mrs. Knight[holding answer 20 November 1996]The information requested falls within the responsibility of the chief executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Robert N. Wareing, dated 25 November 1996:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked me to reply as the Director of the Office for National Statistics to your recent question on the number of full-time jobs created in the United Kingdom and the European Union in the last six years.Information is available only for the net change in employment, which can be calculated by comparing figures for different years.Information showing the number of persons working full-time in European Union member states is published in Eurostat's Labour Force Survey Results for each year between 1989 and 1995 (Table 48 from 1992 to 1995 and Table 41 for earlier years). Copies of the 70W publication are available in the House of Commons Library. The latest available for the United Kingdom is provided in the following table.
Full-time employment in the United Kingdom: at Spring (thousands)1 Number 1989 20,840 1990 21,030 1991 20,499 1992 19,749 1993 19,373 1994 19,404 1995 19,640 1996 19,661 Note: 1Unadjusted. Source:
Labour Force Survey.