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Social Rented Housing: Unemployed

Volume 504: debated on Wednesday 27 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion of social housing (a) tenants and (b) households of working age are not in employment, education or training. (311524)

Estimates of the proportion of social tenants not in employment, education or training are provided in the following table. These estimates are based on data from the 2008 ONS Labour Force Survey.

Economic status of social tenants, England, 2008

All social tenants

economic status of tenant

In employment, education or training

Not in employment, education or training

Total (percentage)

All social tenants

35

65

100

Social tenants of working age

50

50

100

Social tenants with at least one household member of working age

48

52

100

Notes:

1 Excludes households where economic status unknown.

2 Working age is defined as 16 to 59 for females and 16 to 64 for males.

Source:

ONS Labour Force Survey