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Mr. Hain
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest estimates from the labour force survey for each standard United Kingdom region of the number and percentage of (a) all males, (b) all adults over 50 years and (c) all males between 50 and 65 years, who are recorded as economically inactive.
Miss Widdecombe
The available information from the labour force survey is given in the table:industry
1 is from the 1991 census of employment. The estimated number of employees in employment at September 1991 were as follows:
Number
| |
| Great Britain | 76,700 |
| Scotland | 7,900 |
| Wales | 3,000 |
| Northern Ireland2 | 1,700 |
1 Activity heading 4751 of the Standard Industrial Classification 1980. | |
2 Figure supplied by the Department of Economic Development, Northern Ireland. | |