(2) how many women in Copeland were recorded as being in full-time employment in the financial year ending (a) March 1997 and (b) March 2007.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 24 May 2007:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Questions asking (i) how many people in Copeland were recorded as being in full-time employment in the financial year ending (a) March 1997 and (b) March 2007 and (ii) how many women in Copeland were recorded as being in full-time employment in the financial year ending (a) March 1997 and (b) March 2007. (138638, 138639)
The Office for National Statistics compiles employment statistics for local areas from the annual local area Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the Annual Population Survey (APS) following International Labour Organisation definitions.
Estimates of the number of people in full-time employment, resident in the Copeland constituency, as well as all the other parliamentary constituencies in Great Britain, was provided in an Answer on 3rd May 2007, Official Report Volume 459: column 1806W-1807W, reference 135561.
There were 6,000 women, aged 16 and over, resident in the Copeland constituency, in full-time employment for the 12 month period ending in February 1997 based on data from the annual local area LFS. The corresponding estimate, for the 12 months ending in September 2006, the latest available data from the APS, was 8,000.
As these estimates are for a subset of the population in small geographical areas, they are based on small sample sizes, and are therefore subject to large margins of uncertainty. In this case, the sample sizes are not sufficient to give an accurate estimate of even the direction of the change over the period.