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Table 2-Proportion of claimants of jobseeker's allowance by duration of claim
Percentage
	September 2009				October 2009
Duration of claim	Up to 13 weeks	Over 13 weeks up to 26 weeks	Over 26 weeks up to 52 weeks	Over 52 weeks up to 104 weeks	Up to 13 weeks	Over 13 weeks up to 26 weeks	Over 26 weeks up to 52 weeks	Over 52 weeks up to 104 weeks
Bexhill and Battle	44	22	24	9	44	21	22	10
Brighton, Kemptown	42	20	22	10	44	19	21	10
Brighton, Pavilion	48	17	20	10	47	18	20	10
Eastbourne	45	22	22	10	44	22	22	10
Hastings and Rye	38	25	24	11	41	22	24	12
Hove	43	23	19	10	44	21	19	11
Lewes	48	23	20	7	47	23	21	7
Wealden	49	22	22	6	48	21	23	7

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Percentage
	November 2009				December 2009
Duration of claim	Up to 13 weeks	Over 13 weeks up to 26 weeks	Over 26 weeks up to 52 weeks	Over 52 weeks up to 104 weeks	Up to 13 weeks	Over 13 weeks up to 26 weeks	Over 26 weeks up to 52 weeks	Over 52 weeks up to 104 weeks
Bexhill and Battle	44	21	21	11	45	20	20	12
Brighton, Kemptown	44	19	20	11	44	20	19	12
Brighton, Pavilion	46	20	18	11	42	23	17	12
Eastbourne	45	22	21	11	44	22	20	12
Hastings and Rye	41	19	24	13	41	20	24	14
Hove	43	21	19	11	41	22	20	11
Lewes	45	23	21	9	44	22	22	10
Wealden	49	21	21	9	45	23	20	10
Note: Age and duration data are only available for computerised claims, which account for 99.7 per cent. of all claims. Source: Jobcentre Plus administrative system

Unemployment: Lewes

Norman Baker: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the level of unemployment was in Lewes constituency in each year since 1997. [315772]

Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated 4 February 2010:

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking what the level of unemployment was in Lewes constituency in each year since 1997. (315772)

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles unemployment statistics for local areas from the Annual Population Survey (APS) and its predecessor the annual Labour Force Survey (LFS) following International Labour Organisation (ILO) definitions. However, estimates of unemployment for the requested geography are not available.

As an alternative, in Table 1 we have provided the number of persons claiming Jobseeker's Allowance for the Lewes constituency for December 2009 and December of each year since 1997.

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

Table 1. Number of persons resident in Lewes parliamentary constituency claiming jobseeker's allowance
As at December each year	Number
1997	1,101
1998	1,019
1999	886
2000	743
2001	694
2002	748
2003	725
2004	691
2005	752
2006	758
2007	607
2008	1,091
2009	1,369
Source: Jobcentre Plus administrative system

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