Unemployment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the proportion of people who registered as jobseekers in the last six months who were under 40 years of age. (265297)

The available information is in the following table.

*Proportion of jobseeker's allowance claimants under 40 years of age in Great Britain*
	Percentage
2008
September	66.2
October	65.8
November	65.3
December	65.4

2009
January	64.8
February	65.2
Notes: 1. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place. 2. Claimant count data are published at https://www.nomisweb.co.uk. 3. Figures exclude clerical cases. Source: 100 per cent. count of claimants of unemployment-related benefits, Jobcentre Plus Computer Systems (computer held cases only).

Volume 491: debated on Monday 20 April 2009