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Unemployment
Chris Grayling: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) how many and what proportion of households included no-one in full-time employment (a) in 1997 and (b) in the latest year for which figures are available, broken down by (i) constituency, (ii) local authority and (iii) region; [203278]
(2) how many and what proportion of people lived in households with no-one in full-time employment (a) in 1997 and (b) in the latest year for which figures are available, broken down by (i) constituency, (ii) local authority and (iii) region. [203279]
Mr. Watson: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 9 May 2008:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your two parliamentary questions. The first asks how many and what proportion of households included no-one in full-time employment (a) in 1997 and (b) in the latest year for which figures are available, broken down by (i) constituency, (ii) local authority and (iii) region (203278). The second asks how many and what proportion of people lived in households where no-one was in full time employment (a) in 1997 and (b) in the latest year for which figures are available, broken down by (i) constituency, (ii) local authority and (iii) region (203279).
Estimates in the attached tables are provided from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). There is currently no annual household dataset, so the figures are given for the April-June quarter to be consistent with those published in the 'Work and worklessness among households' First Release (see web link
A copy of the tables has been placed in the House of Commons Library.
Data for English and Welsh parliamentary constituencies has been provided for 1999 as data are not available for 1997. Data for Scottish parliamentary constituencies are only available for 2007.
The household datasets (like the main quarterly LFS microdatasets) are weighted to the population estimates published by ONS in February and March 2003. They do not incorporate the more recent population estimates used in the headline LFS series.
Figures for households are based on working age households. A working-age household is a household that includes at least one person of working-age, that is a woman aged 16 to 59 or a man aged 16 to 64.
The LFS is a sample survey covering over 52,000 households in the United Kingdom in each three month period. As with any
sample survey, estimates from the Labour Force Survey are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
Unemployment: Enfield
Joan Ryan: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many people were unemployed in (a) the London Borough of Enfield and (b) the (i) Chase, (ii) Enfield Highway, (iii) Enfield Lock, (iv) Highlands, (v) Southbury, (vi) Town and (vii) Turkey Street wards in the borough in each of the last 10 years. [202864]
Mr. Watson: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 9 May 2008:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people were unemployed in (a) the London Borough of Enfield and (b) the following wards in the borough: (i) Chase, (ii) Enfield Highway, (iii) Enfield Lock, (iv) Highlands, (v) Southbury, (vi) Town and (vii) Turkey Street in each of the last 10 years. [202864]
The Office for National Statistics produces estimates of total unemployment for unitary and local authorities, from a statistical model, following International Labour Organisation (ILO) definitions.
Table 1, attached, shows model based estimates of the total number of unemployed, for the Enfield borough. Estimates are obtained for each 12 month period from 1997 to 2004 ending in February. For time series comparisons, the estimates from 2005 to 2007 are provided covering the 12 month periods ending in March, but the most recently released estimate is also included, which covers the 12 months ending in September 2007. Corresponding estimates for local government wards are not available.
As these estimates are for a subset of the population in a small geographical area, they are based on small sample sizes, and are therefore subject to large margins of uncertainty.
It should be noted that the estimate provided is weighted to population estimates consistent with those published in 2003. Reweighted analyses using the latest population estimates, published in summer 2007, will be available from 14 May 2008.
ONS also compiles statistics for local areas of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA). Table 2, attached, shows the total numbers of people resident in the Enfield borough and the specified wards, claiming JSA. At ward level, data is only available for periods from 2004. In addition, March 2008 data has been included as being the latest data available.
| Table 1: Number of persons unemployed in Enfield borough for the last 10 years. | |
| Thousand | |
| 12 months ending | Unemployed |
| Source: Annual Labour Force Survey and Annual Population Survey. | |
| Table 2: Number of persons claiming Job Seekers Allowance . | ||||||||
| Enfield Borough | Chase | Enfield Highway | Enfield Lock | Highlands | Southbury | Town | Turkey Street | |
| n/a = data not available Source: DWP | ||||||||
Voluntary Organisations: Heywood
Jim Dobbin: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) what proportion of contracts awarded to third-sector organisations that provide services in the Heywood and Middleton constituency were three year contracts in the latest period for which information is available; [202913]
(2) what progress has been made towards ensuring that third-sector organisations providing services in the Heywood and Middleton constituency are awarded three-year contracts. [202915]
Phil Hope: This Government are committed to ensuring that three-year funding for third-sector organisations becomes the norm rather than the exception. I will be reporting on Government progress in meeting this funding commitment to HM Treasury on an annual basis. The first report will be made in the autumn 2008 and will be laid before Parliament. It is expected that local authorities will be making reports on three-year funding from 2009 onwards.
The information requested is currently not recorded centrally.
Voluntary Organisations: Pensions
Joan Walley: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) how many third-sector organisations providing public services have provided (a) a contracted out, final-salary based defined benefit pension scheme or (b) a defined contribution scheme with employer contributions of at least 6 per cent. to new starters working on those contracts; [203320]
(2) how many third-sector organisations providing public services have stakeholder pension schemes for new starters on those contracts; [203321]
(3) how many third-sector organisations providing public services who have stakeholder pension schemes for new starters on those contracts match employee contributions of more than 6 per cent. [203322]
Phil Hope: The information requested is not held centrally. Where public services contracts involve a transfer of staff from a public sector organisation to a private or third-sector service provider (or a subsequent retender of that contract where TUPE applies), the Code of Practice on Workforce Matters in Public Sector Service Contracts may apply. Where the code does apply, it will be for the relevant Government Department to monitor the implementation of the code, including in relation to pensions provision by service providers.
Voluntary Organisations: Standards
Joan Walley: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) what steps the Office of the Third Sector has taken to monitor (a) the application of and (b) compliance with the code of practice on workforce matters designed to prevent the development of a two tier workforce in public service contracts outsourced to the third sector; [203317]
(2) what steps the Office of the Third Sector has taken to assess the effects of the codes of practice on workforce matters designed to prevent the development of a two-tier workforce in public service contracts outsourced to the third sector; [203318]
(3) whether the Third Sector Action Plan will be used to promote adherence to the Best Value Code of Practice on Workforce Matters and the Cabinet Office Code of Practice on Workforce Matters. [203323]
Phil Hope: Public-sector organisations oversee the way in which service providers implement the code, where appropriate. If employees or trade unions feel that the code is not being applied correctly, they are invited in the first instance to alert the relevant public sector organisation. They are also supplied with contact details to seek advice in cases in which they consider that the public-sector organisation has failed to meet its responsibilities In addition, it is part of the ongoing work programme of the Public Services Forum to review the implementation of the code. This review will be undertaken in partnership by trade unions, the third and private sectors and Government.
Given these existing channels for concerns about the code to be raised and acted upon, the Office of the Third Sector has not taken steps to monitor application of, compliance with or the effectiveness of the code on workforce matters. “Partnership in Public Services”, the cross-Government public service action plan, includes 18 key actions to reduce the barriers to third-sector involvement in public service delivery, and does not include promotion of the code.
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