Female Employees

Mr. Redmond
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list by region the percentage of women currently employed in the labour market giving the comparable figures for (a) five and (b) 10 years ago.

Miss Widdecombe
The information is shown in the following table: ---------------------------------------
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|South East (including Greater London)|
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|Greater London                       |
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|East Anglia                          |
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|South West                           |
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|West Midlands                        |
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|East Midlands                        |
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|Yorkshire and Humberside             |
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|North West                           |
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|North                                |
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|Wales                                |
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|Scotland                             |
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|Northern Ireland                     |
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