§ Mr. FieldTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the numbers of people of working age as a percentage of those over the state retirement age for each of the last 20 years. [96764]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Frank Field, dated 2 November 1999:
As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary question on the numbers and percentage of workers in firms employed in different size bands.The information requested is available from the Annual Employment Survey (AES) at September 1997 (latest available date) for the size bands shown.
Employee Jobs1 at September 1997, Great Britain Thousand Percentage Size band 1-10 4,528 20 Size band 11-49 5,787 26 Size band 50-99 2,695 12 Size band 100 and over 9,523 42 1Figures exclude Agriculture as the way that information is supplied would distort the size band analysis