Social Rented Housing: Unemployed

Grant Shapps
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.

Mr. Ian Austin
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.

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|All social tenants                                                                                                                                              |
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|                                                                                                                                                                |economic status of tenant||
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|                                                                                                                                                                |In employment, education or training|Not in employment, education or training|Total (percentage)|
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|All social tenants                                                                                                                                              |35|65|100|
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|Social tenants of working age                                                                                                                                   |50|50|100|
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|Social tenants with at least one household member of working age                                                                                                |48|52|100|
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|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|
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