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The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Jil Matheson, dated October 2009:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Questions asking how many people aged between 16 and 24 years in (a) Chelmsford local authority area and (b) West Chelmsford Parliamentary constituency have been unemployed for over (i) six and (ii) 12 months in each of the last six months; and how many people aged between 16 and 24 years in (a) Chelmsford local authority area and (b) West Chelmsford Parliamentary constituency were unemployed in (i) May 1997 and (ii) each of the last six months for which figures are available. (294057 & 294058)""The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles unemployment statistics for local areas from the Annual Population Survey and its predecessor the annual Labour Force Survey (LFS) following International Labour Organisation (ILO) definitions.""However, estimates of unemployment for the requested age bands and geographies are not available. As an alternative, in Table I we have provided the number of persons, aged 16 to 24, ""claiming Jobseeker*s Allowance, in the requested geographies, for (a) over 6 months and (b) over 12 months in September 2009 and the previous 5 months. Table 2 contains the number of persons aged 16 to 24 claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in the requested geographies for (a) May 1997 and (b) September 2009 and the previous 5 months.""National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at:""http://www.nomisweb.co.uk."<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><thead><tr><th>Table 1: Number of people aged 16 to 24 claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in Chelmsford Local Authority and West Chelmsford Parliamentary constituency for over 6 months and 12 months.</th></tr></thead><TR><TD></TD><TD>Chelmsford</TD><TD>West Chelmsford</TD></TR><TR><TD>Date</TD><TD>over six months</TD><TD>over12 months</TD><TD>over six months</TD><TD>over12 months</TD></TR><TR><TD>April 2009</TD><TD>115</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>85</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>May 2009</TD><TD>130</TD><TD>10</TD><TD>100</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>June 2009</TD><TD>155</TD><TD>10</TD><TD>115</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>July 2009</TD><TD>145</TD><TD>10</TD><TD>105</TD><TD>10</TD></TR><TR><TD>August 2009</TD><TD>170</TD><TD>10</TD><TD>120</TD><TD>10</TD></TR><TR><TD>September 2009</TD><TD>150</TD><TD>10</TD><TD>110</TD><TD>10</TD></TR><tfoot><TR><td>¹. Data have been rounded to nearest five.</td></TR><TR><td>². People claiming for over 12 months are included in the counts of people claiming for over six months.</td></TR><TR><td>Source:</td></TR><TR><td>Jobcentreplus administrative system</td></TR></tfoot></Table><Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><thead><tr><th>Table 2: Number of people aged 16 to 24 claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in Chelmsford Local Authority and West Chelmsford Parliamentary constituency.</th></tr></thead><TR><TD>Date</TD><TD>Chelmsford</TD><TD>West Chelmsford</TD></TR><TR><TD>May 1997</TD><TD>565</TD><TD>385</TD></TR><TR><TD>April 2009</TD><TD>850</TD><TD>585</TD></TR><TR><TD>May 2009</TD><TD>850</TD><TD>595</TD></TR><TR><TD>June 2009</TD><TD>800</TD><TD>560</TD></TR><TR><TD>July 2009</TD><TD>845</TD><TD>590</TD></TR><TR><TD>August 2009</TD><TD>900</TD><TD>630</TD></TR><TR><TD>September 2009</TD><TD>870</TD><TD>610</TD></TR><tfoot><TR><td>Note:</td></TR><TR><td>Data have been rounded to nearest five.</td></TR><TR><td>Source:</td></TR><TR><td>Jobcentreplus administrative system</td></TR></tfoot></Table> |