The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 25 June 2008:"As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question on how many and what proportion of households in Cleethorpes constituency had no one in full-time work in each of the last five years. (212841)""Estimates in the attached table are provided from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). There is currently no annual household dataset, so the figures are given for the April-June quarter to be consistent with those published in the ‘Work and worklessness among households’ First Release (see web link):""http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/work0807.pdf""The household datasets (like the main quarterly LFS microdatasets) are weighted to the population estimates published by the Office for National Statistics in February and March 2003. They do not incorporate the more recent population estimates used in the headline LFS series.""Figures for households are based on working age households. A working-age household is a household that includes at least one person of working-age, that is a woman aged 16 to 59 or a man aged 16 to 64.""The LFS is a sample survey covering over 52,000 households in the United Kingdom in each three month period. As with any sample survey, estimates from the Labour Force Survey are subject to a margin of uncertainty." Number and proportion of working-age¹ households in Cleethorpes constituency where no-one is in full-time employment 2003-07, April to June of each year Levels (Thousand) Percentage² 2003 4 22 2004 6 23 2005 9 30 2006 6 21 2007 4 15 ¹ A working-age household is a household that includes at least one person of working-age, that is a woman aged 16 to 59 or a man aged 16 to 64. ² In calculating percentages, households with unknown economic status have been excluded. Notes: 1. Estimates are weighted to the 2003 population estimates. 2. As with any sample survey, estimates from the Labour Force Survey are subject to a margin of uncertainty. Source: LFS household datasets