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<p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.</p><p>Letter from Glen Watson, dated November 2013:</p><p>As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many and what proportion of the workforce were classed as long-term unemployed in Vale of Clwyd constituency in (a) May 2010 and (b) the most recent period for which data is available. (176808)</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles unemployment statistics for local areas from the Annual Population Survey following International Labour Organisation (ILO) definitions. However, estimates on duration of unemployment for Vale of Clwyd parliamentary constituency are not available due to small sample sizes.</p><p>As an alternative, we have provided the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) for more than 12 months in Vale of Clwyd parliamentary constituency, for May 2010 and October 2013, the latest period available. The estimates of the number of people in the workforce have been taken from the Annual Population Survey (APS). The workforce has been defined as all those who are economically active, that is either employed or unemployed.</p><p>Table 1 shows the number of people in Vale of Clwyd claiming JSA for over 12 months as a percentage of people who were economically active from estimates compiled from APS interviews held during the period January to December 2010 and January to December 2012.</p><p>The counts of people claiming JSA are those who are claiming benefits for unemployment related purposes. At a UK level the total number of JSA claimants is around two thirds of the total unemployment level.</p><p>National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at:</p><p>http://www.nomisweb.co.uk</p><p><table><thead><tr><td valign="top">Table1: Level and percentage1 of economicallyactive people claiming jobseeker’s allowance for over 12 monthsin Vale ofClwyd<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top">Level<br /></td><td valign="top">PercentageofWorkforce<br /></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">May2010<br /></td><td valign="top">320<br /></td><td valign="top">1.0<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">October2013<br /></td><td valign="top">530<br /></td><td valign="top">1.6<br /></td></tr></tbody><tfoot><tr><td valign="top">1Number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance in period divided bythe number of economically active people according to the nearestAnnual Population Survey 12 month calendar period January toDecember.<br />Note:<br />Datarounded to the nearest5.<br />Source:<br />JobcentrePlus Administrative System/Annual PopulationSurvey<br /></td></tr></tfoot></table></p> |