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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 Karen Dunnell, dated July 2009:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking what information is held on the average length of a working week in each of the last 30 years. (285685)""Estimates of the average actual weekly hours of work for those in employment from 1980 to 2009 are shown in the attached table. This information is updated monthly as part of the Labour Market Statistics Bulletin and can be found on the National Statistics website at the following address:""http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/LMS_FR_HS/WebTable07.xls""The estimates are derived from the Labour Force Survey. As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty."<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><thead><tr><th>Average actual weekly hours of work, three-month periods ending April, 1980 to 2009, United Kingdom, seasonally adjusted</th></tr></thead><TR><TD></TD><TD>Average weekly hours¹, ²</TD></TR><TR><TD>1980</TD><TD>34.6</TD></TR><TR><TD>1981</TD><TD>33.7</TD></TR><TR><TD>1982</TD><TD>33.6</TD></TR><TR><TD>1983</TD><TD>33.5</TD></TR><TR><TD>1984</TD><TD>33.5</TD></TR><TR><TD>1985</TD><TD>33.7</TD></TR><TR><TD>1986</TD><TD>33.5</TD></TR><TR><TD>1987</TD><TD>33.6</TD></TR><TR><TD>1988</TD><TD>33.7</TD></TR><TR><TD>1989</TD><TD>33.8</TD></TR><TR><TD>1990</TD><TD>33.7</TD></TR><TR><TD>1991</TD><TD>33.2</TD></TR><TR><TD>1992</TD><TD>33.0</TD></TR><TR><TD>1993</TD><TD>32.9</TD></TR><TR><TD>1994</TD><TD>33.2</TD></TR><TR><TD>1995</TD><TD>33.4</TD></TR><TR><TD>1996</TD><TD>33.2</TD></TR><TR><TD>1997</TD><TD>33.3</TD></TR><TR><TD>1998</TD><TD>33.3</TD></TR><TR><TD>1999</TD><TD>32.9</TD></TR><TR><TD>2000</TD><TD>32.8</TD></TR><TR><TD>2001</TD><TD>32.7</TD></TR><TR><TD>2002</TD><TD>32.5</TD></TR><TR><TD>2003</TD><TD>32.2</TD></TR><TR><TD>2004</TD><TD>32.1</TD></TR><TR><TD>2005</TD><TD>32.1</TD></TR><TR><TD>2006</TD><TD>32.0</TD></TR><TR><TD>2007</TD><TD>32.0</TD></TR><TR><TD>2008</TD><TD>32.0</TD></TR><TR><TD>2009</TD><TD>31.6</TD></TR><tfoot><TR><td>¹ Average hours actually worked in the reference week, which includes hours worked in second jobs.</td></TR><TR><td>² Figures include both paid and unpaid overtime.</td></TR><TR><td>Note:</td></TR><TR><td>The above estimates exclude people in most types of communal establishment (e.g. hotels, boarding houses, hostels mobile home sites etc.)</td></TR><TR><td>Source:</td></TR><TR><td>Labour Force Survey.</td></TR></tfoot></Table> |