§ Mr. DjanoglyTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the level of unemployment was in the Huntingdon constituency in each year since 1997. [170844]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Jonathan Djanogly, dated 6 May 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about unemployment. (170844)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles statistics of unemployment from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) following International Labour Organisation definitions. However, the LFS sample size is too small to give reliable estimates of unemployment in the Huntingdon Constituency.
1741WONS also compiles statistics of those claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) for local areas including parliamentary constituencies.
The table below gives the annual average number of JSA claimants for the Huntingdon constituency for each year since 1997.
Annual average number of JSA claimants—Huntingdon constituency, 1997–2003 Number of claimants 1997 1,451 1998 1,214 1999 1,198 2000 964 2001 712 2002 786 2003 870