The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated 29 January 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question on how many lone parents were unemployed in each year since 2007. (314666)
The information requested is given in the table attached. The figures are from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) household datasets for the three months ending June 2007 to 2009.
As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty as different samples give different results.
Thousands Unemployed lone parents 2007 113 2008 139 2009 169 1 Women aged 16-59, men aged 16-64. 2 Lone parents with dependent children; these are children who are under 16 or aged 16-18 unmarried and in full-time education. Source: Labour Force Survey household dataset