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Employment Statistics

Volume 450: debated on Thursday 12 October 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the rate of (a) economic activity and (b) unemployment is in each (i) council district and (ii) parliamentary constituency. (91647)

The working age economic activity rate at April-June 2006 and claimant count unemployment rate at August 2006 for each i) district council and ii) parliamentary constituency are shown in the following tables:

Percentage

i) District councils

Economic activity rate1

Claimant count unemployment rate

Antrim

85.3

1.8

Ards

74.7

2.3

Armagh

78.1

1.9

Ballymena

78.0

2.2

Ballymoney

75.2

2.3

Banbridge

75.6

1.4

Belfast

71.1

4.3

Carrickfergus

77.6

2.2

Castlereagh

85.5

1.4

Coleraine

79.0

2.6

Cookstown

63.4

2.0

Craigavon

70.8

2.3

Derry

62.0

5.3

Down

70.2

2.4

Dungannon

69.9

1.8

Fermanagh

60.1

2.7

Larne

78.8

2.3

Limavady

59.3

2.9

Lisburn

77.1

2.3

Magherafelt

71.6

1.6

Moyle

67.7

3.3

Newry and Mourne

74.3

2.5

Newtownabbey

78.0

2.3

North Down

72.7

1.9

Omagh

72.1

2.4

Strabane

66.6

5.3

Northern Ireland

72.9

2.8

Percentage

ii) Parliamentary constituencies

Economic activity rate1

Claimant count unemployment rate

Belfast East

84.6

2.2

Belfast North

69.9

4.9

Belfast South

76.6

2.5

Belfast West

51.6

6.3

East Antrim

79.7

2.8

East Londonderry

71.9

2.7

Fermanagh and South Tyrone

64.5

2.4

Foyle

62.0

5.3

Lagan Valley

81.1

1.6

Mid Ulster

67.6

1.8

Newry and Armagh

74.6

2.4

North Antrim

75.6

2.4

North Down

71.0

2.0

South Antrim

80.9

1.8

South Down

73.1

2.1

Strangford

79.4

1.9

Upper Bann

69.5

2.1

West Tyrone

69.7

3.7

Northern Ireland

72.9

2.8

1Source: Labour Force Survey, April - June 2006.