§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his latest estimate is of the number of people in(a) Leeds and (b) Leeds, West constituency who are in (i) temporary and (ii) part-time employment. [81488]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl to John Battle, dated 20 November 2002:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about number of people in temporary and part-time employment in Leeds. I am replying in his absence. (81918)186WThe Labour Force Survey (LFS) gives estimates of temporary and part-time employment levels for Local Authority Districts. The latest available estimates are for the three month period ending August 2002. The Office for National Statistics publishes employment rates, but not levels for parliamentary constituencies.The estimate of the number of temporary employees in Leeds Local Authority District, for the three month period ending August 2002, is 20,000. The estimate of the number of people in part-time employment is 94,000. These estimates are from the LFS. They are not seasonally adjusted and have not yet been adjusted to take account of the recent Census 2001 results.Re-weighted LFS estimates for local areas using 2001 Census population information will be available from Summer 2003.