§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many new jobs have been created in Stoke-on-Trent, North in each year since 1997. [177632]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Ms Joan Walley, dated 15 June 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about jobs created in Stoke-on-Trent.
While statistics of new jobs created art not available explicitly, statistics from surveys enable comparisons to be made of net changes, in numbers of jobs, from year to year.
The following table, from the Annual Business Inquiry (a survey of businesses), shows the informat on requested, relating to jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent North, for each year from 1997 to 2002, the latest year available. The fall in the overall number of jobs almost all occurred in the manufacturing sector, and over the period 1997 to 2002 as a whole, there were increases in jobs in Stoke-on-Trent North in the sectors relating to: distribution, hotels and restaurants, transport and communication, and public administration, education and health.
The Labour Force Survey (a survey of households) shows a that the number of people of working age resident in the Stoke-on-Trent North Constituency who were is employment fell from 32,800 to 31,100 between the two 12 month periods ending respectively in February 1997 and February 2003, the latest period for which such information is available. However, the working age employment rate rose from 65.2% to 67.1%.
Total number of employees1 with workplace in Stoke-on-Trent North Parliamentary Constituency: 1997 and 2002 Total Number of employees Change on previous year2 1997 27,800 - 1998 29,400 1,600 1999 25,200 -4,200 2000 24,500 -700 2001 23,900 -700 2002 22,800 -1,000 1Employee jobs only, not self-employed jobs 2 The change figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred separately from rounded levels for individual years Source: 1997; Annual Employment Survey, rescaled 2002; Annual Business Inquiry (ABI)