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Employment: Public Sector

Answer

I have been asked to reply.The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Stephen Penneck dated November 2010:"As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning how many and what proportion of people were employed in the public sector in each region in the latest period for which figures are available. (24233)""Estimates of employment for the UK public sector are taken from the ONS release on Public Sector Employment at""www.statistics.gov.uk""The latest period for which figures are available is Quarter 2 2010.""The table attached provides the requested data."

Regional employment: by region and country of workplace Q2 2010¹, not seasonally adjusted
Thousand
	Public sector
Region	Headcount³	Percentage	Total employment²
London	782	18.7	4,172
South East	684	17.3	3,957
South West	518	20.3	2,551
West Midlands	503	20.5	2,452
North West	690	21.8	3,164
North East	285	25.1	1,136
Yorkshire and the Humber	534	22.3	2,391
East Midlands	384	19.5	1,973
East of England	457	17.8	2,566
Wales	343	26.5	1,296
Scotland4	606	24.8	2,450
Northern Ireland5	228	30.0	759
England	4,838	19.9	24,361
Great Britain	5,787	20.6	28,107
United Kingdom6	6,048	20.8	29,142
¹ Estimates are based on where people are employed.
² Labour Force Survey—All in employment aged 16 and over. Data refer to May to July 2010.
³ Public sector estimates include banks reclassified to the public sector—Northern Rock from 9 October 2007, Bradford and Bingley from 26 September 2008, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group from 13 October 2008.
4 Estimates of PSE for Scotland are supplied by Scottish Government and match those produced by Scottish Government on a quarterly basis.
5 Estimates of PSE for Northern Ireland will differ to those published by DETINI; ONS figures include HM Forces personnel. In addition, ONS percentage figures use the Labour Force Survey employment as a denominator as opposed to the Quarterly Employment Survey employee estimate used by DETINI.
6 Includes overseas employees, those who did not state their region of workplace when surveyed as part of the Labour Force Survey and approximately 30,000 public sector employees that could not be assigned to a region.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

24233; 518 c834-5W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Public sector Staff

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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