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Teenage Pregnancies

Sarah Teather: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many under 16-year-olds fell pregnant in (a) London and (b) each London borough in each year since 1997. [40806]

John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 10 January 2006:

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many under 16 year olds fell pregnant in (a) London and (b) each London borough in each year since 1997. (40806)

Available figures are estimates of the number of pregnancies that resulted in a live birth, stillbirth or termination.

The most recent complete year for which estimates are available is 2003. Figures for 1997 to 2003 are given in the attached table.

 
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Number of conceptions to girls aged under 16 years by area of usual residence, London, 1997–2003

Area of usual residence	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
London	1,141	1,152	1,058	1,246	1,252	1,229	1,247
Camden LB	25	24	21	24	22	25	23
Hackney LB and City of London	64	65	45	69	62	56	62
Hammersmith and Fulham LB	26	16	27	21	22	21	25
Haringey LB	50	50	33	60	59	59	46
Islington LB	29	20	34	27	37	30	33
Kensington and Chelsea LB	16	11	18	19	14	13	8
Lambeth LB	81	81	69	78	80	95	100
Lewisham LB	66	63	55	62	61	70	74
Newham LB	55	54	61	69	71	59	45
Southwark LB	59	57	61	63	68	77	83
Tower Hamlets LB	23	49	19	39	42	34	28
Wandsworth LB	46	46	48	44	48	41	39
Westminster City of LB	14	16	20	20	20	17	17
Barking and Dagenham LB	43	25	34	45	51	43	44
Barnet LB	28	20	28	35	34	27	38
Bexley LB	34	37	30	22	34	36	27
Brent LB	32	36	49	55	52	50	54
Bromley LB	30	29	24	35	33	38	39
Croydon LB	64	77	67	78	72	68	57
Ealing LB	28	43	31	41	31	32	29
Enfield LB	47	33	26	48	43	51	58
Greenwich LB	62	52	59	43	51	45	45
Harrow LB	22	19	9	15	24	21	18
Havering LB	22	22	25	31	23	18	29
Hillingdon LB	37	47	27	32	37	39	48
Hounslow LB	30	25	41	34	38	25	34
Kingston upon Thames LB	14	18	14	10	9	8	9
Merton LB	13	26	13	34	20	22	27
RedbridgeLB	23	20	22	26	26	28	25
Richmond upon Thames LB	13	11	7	9	10	9	8
Sutton LB	9	25	13	17	17	23	25
Waltham Forest LB	36	35	28	41	41	49	50

Note:
To preserve confidentiality, counts for City of London have been combined with those for Hackney LB.

Treasury Enterprise Team

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the remit of the Enterprise Team in the Treasury is. [40374]

John Healey: The Enterprise Team's remit is to help to maximise the contribution of business and enterprise to the economic performance of the UK by:

driving progress across government to create the right conditions for firms to start, innovate and grow;

ensuring that government promotes creation of an enterprise society, in which people with the talent and motivation are able to set up, innovate and succeed in business;

harnessing the potential of enterprise to tackle disadvantage and to create new business opportunities;

working to reduce the burden on businesses on burdensome or disproportionate regulations;

shaping industrial policy to create a positive business environment; and

improving and broadening the Treasury's corporate relationships with the community.

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what methods the Enterprise Team uses to liaise with businesses, with particular reference to small and medium-sized enterprises. [40377]

John Healey: The Enterprise Team uses a number of methods to liaise with businesses including small and medium-sized enterprises. These range from one-to-one meetings to large conferences and include seminars,
 
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round table discussions, telephone conversations, attendance at business association events and meetings, presentations and consultations.

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the meetings the Enterprise Team has had with business associations in the last six months. [40383]

John Healey: Members of the Enterprise Team, in common with other Treasury officials, have meetings with a wide range of individuals and organisations as part of the process of policy development and analysis. It would not be practicable to provide details of all such meetings. Treasury meetings are conducted in accordance with the ministerial code and the civil service code, as appropriate.

Unemployment

Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in Beverley and Holderness were unemployed for more than two years in each year since 1997. [40040]

John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 10 January 2006:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about unemployment in Beverley and Holderness. (40040)

 
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles statistics of unemployment from the Labour Force Survey following International Labour Organisation definitions. However for the Beverley and Holderness constituency sample numbers are insufficient to provide estimates of numbers of people unemployed for more than two years.

ONS also compiles statistics for local areas of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA). Table 1, attached, shows the annual average (January to December) number of JSA claimants, who have been claiming for more than two years, in the Beverley and Holderness constituency, for each year from 1997 to the present.

The claimant count data are published on the Office for National Statistics' Nomis website: www.nomisweb.co.uk

Annual average number of people claiming JSA for more than two years in the Beverley and Holderness constituency

Twelve month period ending November:	Average number of claimants
1997	180
1998	125
1999	145
2000	130
2001	125
2002	100
2003	70
2004	55
2005	55

Note:
The data are rounded to the nearest 5.
Source:
Jobcentre Plus Administrative system

Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in Beverley and Holderness were economically inactive in each year since 1997. [40041]

John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 10 January 2006:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about economic inactivity in Beverley and Holderness. (40041)

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles statistics of economic inactivity from the Labour Force Survey following International Labour Organisation definitions. Table 1, attached below, shows the numbers of inactive people of working age resident in the Beverley and Holderness constituency. The table also shows the number of inactive people of working age as a percentage of the total working age population resident in the constituency. The data shown cover the 12 month periods ending in February each year from 1997 to 2004 and in March 2005.

These estimates, as with any from sample surveys, are subject to a margin of uncertainty. Changes in the estimates from year to year should be treated with particular caution.

These data are published on the Office for National Statistics' Nomis(r) website: www.nomisweb.co.uk.

Number of working age economically inactive persons, and working age inactivity rate, resident in the Beverley and Holderness constituency

Twelve month period ending February:	Number of inactive persons (000)	Inactivity rate (per cent.)
1998	13	21.1
1999	12	21.3
2000	11	20.3
2001	13	21.0
2002	12	21.0
2003	11	21.2
2004	11	19.9
March 2005	14	23.5

Source:
Annual local area Labour Force Survey; Annual Population Survey





 
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