§ Mr. HealdTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to his answers of 27 November, Refs 82508, 82511 and 82513, if he will rank the(a) unemployment rates and (b) ethnic minority population statistics of each 60 local authorities referred to in respect of (i) the United Kingdom and (ii) each nation of the UK. [85293]
§ Mr. Nicholas Brown[holding answer 4 December 2002]: The information is in the table.
Many of the local authorities with the lowest employment rates are also among the local authorities with the highest ethnic minority populations. The local authorities listed as having high ethnic minority populations are therefore the 30 local authorities with the highest ethnic minority populations that do not already feature in the list of the 30 local authorities with the lowest employment rate.
Percentage Local authorities with lowest employment rates Employment rate Tower Hamlets (E) 55 Knowsley (E) 55 Merthyr Tydfil (W) 56 City of Glasgow (S) 57 Blaenau Gwent (W) 57 Newham (E) 57 Easington (E) 58 Hackney (E) 58 Liverpool (E) 59 Manchester (E) 59 Middlesbrough (E) 59 East Ayrshire (S) 61 Neath Port Talbot (W) 62 Sunderland (E) 62 Newcastle upon Tyne (E) 62 South Tyneside (E) 63 Redcar and Cleveland (E) 63 Pembrokeshire (W) 63 Halton (E) 64 Southwark (E) 64 Kingston upon Hull, City (E) 64 Nottingham (E) 64 Islington (E) 65 Rhondda, Cynon, Taff (W) 65 Salford (E) 65 Hartlepool (E) 66 North Lanarkshire (S) 66 West Dunbartonshire (S) 66 Dundee (S) 66 Caerphilly (W) 67 144W
Local authorities with highest minority ethnic population Population Birmingham (E) 157,990 Brent (E) 98,297 Ealing (E) 85,407 Leicester City (E) 63,889 Bradford (E) 60,694 Barnet (E) 58,832 Lambeth (E) 58,458 Redbridge (E) 57,153
Local authorities with highest minority ethnic population Population Harrow (E) 54,580 Westminster, City of (E) 52,805 Haringey (E) 52,712 Croydon (E) 47,935 Lewisham (E) 44,678 Hounslow (E) 43,733 Waltham Forest (E) 43,233 Wandsworth (E) 37,384 Luton (E) 33,679 Enfield (E) 33,496 Camden (E) 33,007 Sandwell (E) 32,370 Kensington and Chelsea (E) 32,261 Leeds (E) 31,681 Kirklees (E) 31,436 Wolverhampton (E) 30,275 Merton (E) 29,636 Hammersmith and Fulham (E) 28,652 Hillingdon (E) 27,608 Sheffield (E) 26,224 Greenwich (E) 25,738 Coventry (E) 23,172 Notes:
1. (E) = England, (S) = Scotland, (W) = Wales
2. Jobcentre Plus does not operate in Northern Ireland
Source:
Labour Force Survey