asked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) how many persons who are currently unemployed are receiving no unemployment benefit;(2) how many of the people included in the most recent unemployment figures are in receipt of unemployment benefit;

At 11th October, 129,909 people had been registered as unemployed for more than 52 weeks, and 19,299 were school-leavers who had not entered employment since terminating full-time education. At 8th November, the number of unemployed school-leavers was 11,935.