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Miss Joan Lestor
asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will estimate the total number of unemployed women who are not registered at employment exchanges.
Mr. Alison
I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mrs. Short) on 11 February 1982.—[Vol. 17, c. 437.]
Miss Joan Lestor
asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will estimate the number of women aged 16 to 59 years in employment as a percentage of the total female population for that age group for each of the past four years.
Mr. Alison
Estimates of the numbers of women in employment aged 16 to 59 years represented as a percentage of the total female population for that age group are given in the following table:
| Female employed labour force aged 16 to 59 as a percentage of total female population aged 16 to 59 (Great Britain) | |
| Percentage | |
| June 1978 | 59 |
| June 1979 | 60 |
| June 1980 | 59 |
| June 1981 | 56 |