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 working-age adults with children were unemployed in each year since 2005. (314502)
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 for each year requested.
As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty as different samples give different results.
Unemployed parents (thousand) 2005 349 2006 417 2007 389 2008 433 2009 636 1 Women aged 16 to 59, men aged 16 to 64. 2 Dependent children; these are children who are under 16 or aged 16 to 18 unmarried and in full time education. Source: Labour Force Survey Household dataset