§ Mr. JoyceTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people were in employment(a) at the most recent date for which figures are available and (b) in May 1997 for each constituency in Scotland. [61293]
§ Ruth KellyI have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Eric Joyce, dated 1 July 2002:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about employment in Scotland. (61304)ONS publishes employment rates but not levels from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for parliamentary constituencies.The attached table gives estimates of working age employment rates for each constituency in Scotland for the periods March 1997 to February 1998, and March 2000 to February 2001. These estimates are from the LFS and are not seasonally adjusted.
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Annual working age' employment rates 2 by parliamentary constituency; Scotland; March 1997 to February 1998 and March 2000 to February 2001; not seasonally adjusted Per cent March 1997 to February 1998 March 2000 to February 2001 Scotland 71.0 73.1 Aberdeen Central 74.2 70.5 Aberdeen North 81.8 81.5 Aberdeen South 81.1 81.8 Airdrie and Shotts 66.0 62.2 Angus 78.7 77.3 Argyll and Bute 70.7 71.2 Ayr 77.2 70.0 Banff and Buchan 72.8 77.5 Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross 66.3 77.5 Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley 65.0 67.7 Central Fife 66.8 70.2 Clydebank and Milngavie 68.1 68.6 Clydesdale 70.4 73.3 Coatbridge and Chryston 62.2 64.6 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 70.5 71.2 Cunninghame North 66.5 66.7 Cunninghame South 64.4 69.9 Dumbarton 73.3 72.2 Dumfries 71.6 72.4 Dundee East 70.4 69.9 Dundee West 64.9 61.3 Dunfermline East 71.9 75.8 Dunfermline West 78.8 78.5 East Kilhride 75.2 84.0 East Lothian 73.9 72.6 Eastwood 81.6 79.4 Edinburgh Central 64.7 76.1 Edinburgh East and Musselburgh 76.9 71.8 Edinburgh North and Leith 72.4 78.3 Edinburgh Pentlands 77.3 81.2 Edinburgh South 66.5 66.0
Annual working age1 employment rates2 by parliamentary constituency; Scotland; March 1997 to February 1998 and Marchuary 2001; not seasonally adjusted Per cent March 1997 to February 1998 March 2000 to February 2001 Edinburgh West 76.7 80.8 Falkirk East 73.3 78.6 Falkirk West 74.3 74.4 Galloway and Upper Nithsdale 68.5 74.6 Glasgow Anniesland 60.2 71.7 Glasgow Baillieston 55.5 59.9 Glasgow Cathcart 64.5 70.4 Glasgow Govan 69.1 61.5 Glasgow Kelvin 66.6 60.6 Glasgow Maryhill 49.1 58.7 Glasgow Pollok 57.9 64.4 Glasgow Rutherglen 64.0 63.5 Glasgow Shettleston 48.6 54.3 Glasgow Springburn 49.7 57.4 Gordon 85.5 84.1 Greenock and Inverclyde 73.2 76.8 Hamilton North and Bellshill 66.0 70.9 Hamilton South 61.0 61.9 Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber 77.2 79.5 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 64.1 72.4 Kirkcaldy 73.3 66.7 Linlithgow 79.4 78.6 Livingston 81.2 78.6 Midlothian 78.2 80.0 Moray 71.7 79.6 Motherwell and Wishaw 64.7 59.8 North East Fife 71.0 78.7 North Tayside 77.5 82.1 Ochil 65.4 67.3 Orkney and Shetland 81.3 87.3 Paisley North 63.3 63.4 Paisley South 71.4 79.2 Perth 78.4 81.6 Ross, Skye and Inverness West 77.2 77.4 Roxburgh and Berwickshire 75.8 84.2 Stirling 72.6 71.7 Strathkelvin and Bearsden 76.7 74.1 Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale 79.5 84.7 West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine 76.1 85.2 West Renfrewshire 76.0 81.6 Western Isles 78.9 78.5 1 Men aged 16–64 and women aged 16–59 2Working age people in employment as a percentage of the working age population Source:
ONS Labour Force Survey, Annual Data