To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many and what proportion of 16 to 24-year-olds resident in each (a) region, (b) parliamentary constituency and (c) local authority area were (i) unemployed and not in full-time education and (ii) economically inactive and not in full-time education in each (A) year since 1997 and (B) each month of the last five years for which figures are available. (252908)

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many and what proportion of 16 to 24 year olds resident in each (a) region, (b) parliamentary constituency and (c) local authority area were (i) unemployed and not in full-time education and (ii) economically inactive and not in full-time education in each (A) year since 1997 and (B) each month of the last five years for which figures are available. (252908)

Information in the form requested is not readily available and could only be compiled at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many households contained no one in (a) work and (b) full-time work in each quarter of the last two years. (255125)

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated February 2009:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question how many households contained no one in (a) work and (b) full-time work in each quarter of the last two years. (255125)

The information available is provided in the attached table.

Estimates are only available for the April to June and October to December quarters in the source used; the Labour Force Survey household data set. Estimates for October to December 2008 will be available on 25th February 2009.

Figures for households are based on working age households. A working-age household is a household that includes at least one person of working-age, that is a woman aged 16 to 59 or a man aged 16 to 64.

The figures given for the April-June quarters are consistent with those published in the ‘Work and worklessness among households’ First Release—see web link:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/work0807.pdf

It is vital to note that, as with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty, as different samples give different results.