To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will give a breakdown in percentage terms of the numbers of unemployed people for each quarter since 1990 to the present who have been unemployed for (a) up to and including six months, (b) six months up to and including a year, (c) from between a year up to and including two years and (d) over two years who have (i) academic qualifications, (ii) vocational qualifications and (iii) no qualifications. [32367]

I have been asked to reply.This information is available from the "Labour Force Survey" for Great Britain, annually until 1991 and quarterly from spring 1992 onwards, and can be obtained via the Quantime LFS service available in the Library.