Written question asked by Andrew Stephenson (Conservative) on Wednesday, 30 March 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 1 April 2011. It was answered by Nick Hurd (Conservative) on Friday, 1 April 2011 on behalf of the Cabinet Office.

Unemployment: Pendle

Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent estimate he has made of the number of workless households in Pendle constituency.

Answer: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated March 2011:"As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your question asking what recent estimate has been made of the number of workless households in Pendle constituency. (50963).""Estimates of the number of workless households are derived from the Annual Population Survey (APS) household datasets. These are currently available for 2004 to 2009. However, due to the specific nature of your request it is not possible to provide reliable estimates because the sample sizes for this survey are not sufficiently large enough for the Pendle constituency."

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