Employed Persons And Benefit Recipients

Mr. Evelyn King
asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list, for each of the past 10 years, the number of persons gainfully employed and the number of persons in receipt of State benefit whether due to age, sickness, unemployment or any other cause.

Mr. Golding
Information in the form requested is not available.The following table gives estimates of the number of people gainfully employed, together with estimates of the number of payments of State benefits in a week, for each of the 10 years to 1977. Some of these payments are made to people who are gainfully employed.Because an individual may receive more than one benefit at the same time, a count of the separate payments made will overestimate the numbers receiving benefits.

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|1968|…|…|
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|1969|…|…|
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|1970|…|…|
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|1971|…|…|
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|1972|…|…|
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|1973|…|…|
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|1974|…|…|
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|1975|…|…|
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|1976|…|…|
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|1977|…|…|
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