Labour Statistics

Mr. McLeish
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the mid-year estimate of the population of working age between the ages of 16 and 59 or 64 years in Great Britain and for each of the standard regions in (a) June 1979 and (b) June 1989.

Mr. Freeman
The information requested is as follows: --------------------------
|Region                  |
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|North                   |
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|Yorkshire and Humberside|
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|East Midlands           |
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|East Anglia             |
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|South East              |
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|South West              |
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|West Midlands           |
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|North West              |
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|Wales                   |
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|Scotland                |
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|Great Britain           |
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