§ Mr. HepburnTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of teenage parents is not in education, employment or training in the Jarrow constituency.[9105]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Stephen Hepburn, dated 22 October 2001:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question about the proportion of teenage parents not in education, employment or training in the Jarrow constituency (9105).Information on teenage parents is not available from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for Parliamentary Constituencies.The wards comprising Jarrow constituency fall within the local authority districts of South Tyneside and Gateshead, but the LFS sample size for teenage parents in these districts is too small to provide reliable estimates of the proportion who are not in education, employment or training.