§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list for(a) each delivery unit for which the figures are available and (b) for each month from January to April 1998, the rate at which 18 to 24 year olds ceased jobseeker's allowance claims and went into jobs in non-pathfinder areas broken down by (i) men, (ii) women, (iii) people with disabilities and (iv) those from ethnic minority groups. [61080]
§ Ms Hewitt[holding answer 30 November 1998]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.
157WLetter from Tim Holt to Mr. Don Foster, dated 1 December 1998:
As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary question on the rate at which 18 to 24 year olds ceased jobseeker's allowance claims and went into jobs in non-pathfinder areas.
ONS does not collect data on the disability or ethnicity of claimants, or the location of jobs people take up on leaving the claimant count. Delivery Units are not standard geographies, but from early in the New Year, best-fit data for delivery units for the number of claimants split by age and sex will be available from the Nomis database that can be accessed by the House of Commons Library.