§ Dr. MurrisonTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many unemployed disabled people there were expressed(a) numerically and (b) as a percentage of the total unemployed in each month since January 1997 (i) nationally and (ii) in the south-west. [11375]
§ Mr Nircholas BrownThe available information is in the table:
ILO Unemployed Total Working-age Working-age disabled people Percentage Great Britain 1998 1,703,266 332,768 19.5 1999 1,678,741 348,153 20.7 2000 1,551,454 348,813 22.5 2001 1,343,345 279,795 20.8 South-west 1998 107,276 25,656 23.9 1999 115,601 24,262 21.0 2000 100,126 25,039 25.0 2001 85,043 19,913 23.4 Notes
1. Information is from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), which uses the International Labour Organisation (ILO) measure of unemployment.
2. People are ILO unemployed if they are out of work, want a job, have actively sought work in the last four weeks and are available to start work in the next two weeks.
3. Information is not available by month because seasonally adjusted information from the Labour Force Survey is only available once each year. Therefore, the table provides information on Great Britain and the south-west for the spring quarter of each year since 1998.
4. Information before 1998 is not comparable due to changes in the health and disability questions asked in the LFS.
Source:
LFS Spring Quarters 1998–2001.