I have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated March 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people have been made redundant in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland constituency in the last six months. (263801)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles labour market statistics for local areas from the annual Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the Annual Population Survey (APS), following International Labour Organisation (ILO) definitions. However, these sources are not designed to estimate the number of redundancies over a six month period at the geographic levels requested.