House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 14 Sep 2009 (pt 0014)

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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles the number of claimants of Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) from the Jobcentre Plus administrative system. Table 1 shows the number and percentage of persons aged 18-24 claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in each month since January 2004.

National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at

http://www.nomisweb.co.uk

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Table 1 Number of persons aged 18-24 resident in Chelmsford claiming Jobseeker's Allowance
	Number^{( 1)}	Percentage^{( 2)}
January 2004	295	2.2
February 2004	315	2.4
March 2004	325	2.5
April 2004	290	2.2
May 2004	245	1.8
June 2004	220	1.7
July 2004	235	1.8
August 2004	280	2.1
September 2004	275	2.1
October 2004	265	2.0
November 2004	240	1.8
December 2004	255	1.9
January 2005	305	2.3
February 2005	320	2.4
March 2005	300	2.2
April 2005	315	2.4
May 2005	315	2.3
June 2005	310	2.3
July 2005	325	2.4
August 2005	365	2.7
September 2005	355	2.7
October 2005	345	2.6
November 2005	340	2.5
December 2005	355	2.7
January 2006	400	3.0
February 2006	430	3.2
March 2006	410	3.0
April 2006	435	3.2
May 2006	380	2.8
June 2006	340	2.5
July 2006	400	3.0
August 2006	400	3.0
September 2006	405	3.0
October 2006	375	2.8
November 2006	385	2.8
December 2006	365	2.7
January 2007	395	2.9
February 2007	425	3.1
March 2007	425	3.1
April 2007	430	3.1
May 2007	400	2.9
June 2007	375	2.7
July 2007	380	2.8
August 2007	380	2.8
September 2007	370	2.7
October 2007	350	2.6
November 2007	335	2.4
December 2007	325	2.4
January 2008	345	2.5
February 2008	350	2.6
March 2008	325	2.4
April 2008	300	2.2
May 2008	305	2.2
June 2008	295	2.2
July 2008	340	2.5
August 2008	385	2.8
September 2008	415	3.0
October 2008	430	3.2
November 2008	515	3.8
December 2008	530	3.9
January 2009	625	4.6
February 2009	770	5.6
March 2009	785	5.7
April 2009	825	6.0
May 2009	835	6.1
June 2009	785	5.7
July 2009	830	6.1
⁽¹⁾ Data rounded to nearest five ⁽²⁾ Percentage of 18-24 years olds claiming Jobseeker's Allowance Source: Jobcentre Plus administrative system

Health

Ambulance Services: Greater Manchester

Paul Rowen: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions his Department's Performance Delivery Team has had with strategic health authorities on the response times of the Greater Manchester Ambulance Service. [291035]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: It is the responsibility of strategic health authorities and primary care trusts to support ambulance trusts to ensure national response time standards are delivered and sustained locally.

The Department, via its Performance Delivery Team, continues to discuss ambulance performance with the NHS North West strategic health authority to receive assurance that that they are working with local organisations to address issues for the North West Ambulance Service to achieve and sustain the response time targets.

Antibiotics

Paul Rowen: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many manufacturers of generic antibiotics had operating manufacturing units at which generic antibiotics were manufactured in the UK (a) in 1997 and (b) at the latest date for which figures are available. [291037]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: Accurate information is not readily available to give an actual number for 1997. There are four known companies manufacturing generic antibiotics in the United Kingdom in 2009.

Asthma

Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) people and (b) children underwent an emergency hospital admission following an asthma attack in 2008. [290976]

Ann Keen: The Department uses information from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for data of this kind. HES is the national statistical data warehouse for England of the care provided by national health service hospitals and for NHS hospital patients treated elsewhere. The data are freely available from:

www.hesonline.nhs.uk

The latest data for the number of emergency asthma attack admissions to hospital are for April 2007 to April 2008, and are given in the following table. The April
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2008 to April 2009 data are not yet available. Note that a patient may have more than one finished episode of asthma for each hospital admission, which explains why episode data exceed admission data in the table.

	Total patient admissions	Total episodes
Children (0-15 years)	19,228	24,077
Adults (16+ years)	30,427	36,219
All (total)	49,655	60,296

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