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answer text: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.Letter from Mike Hughes, dated November 2008:"The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking pursuant to the Oral Answer to the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell of 20th October 2008, Official Report, column 4, on labour statistics, how many (a) British born and (b) emigrant workers were in employment (i) in October 2006 and (ii) on the latest date for which figures are available, and if a statement will be made. I am replying in her absence. (234060).""Your question has been answered on the same basis as the Oral answer you refer to, reported in the Official Report, column 4, on 20 October 2008.""The attached table gives the number of people of working age in employment in the United Kingdom by country of birth (UK born and Non-UK born), for October-December 2006, and April-June 2008 (the latest estimate available). Note that official employment estimates are published on a three month rolling basis; estimates for individual months are not available. The October-December 2006 estimate has therefore been provided. Estimates for April-June 2006 have also been included in the table to allow comparison of employment levels between the latest period available, and two years earlier.""Please note that the figures quoted in the Official Report (365,000 and 865,000) refer to the decrease in UK born employment, and increase in non-UK born employment respectively, over the last three years. However, due to a printing error in Hansard, the answer to Parliamentary Question 226214 (Official Report, 13 October 2008, columns 953W to 956W) incorrectly showed the estimated change in UK born employment from 2007 to 2008 as -24,000 rather than +24,000. As a consequence the estimated decrease in UK born employment over the last three years is 317,000 not 365,000.""The estimates in the table are derived from Labour Force Su…
answer given date: 2008-11-10+00:00
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