Written question asked by Denzil Davies (Labour) on Monday, 28 June 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 7 July 2004. It was answered by Ruth Kelly (Labour) on Wednesday, 7 July 2004 on behalf of the Office for National Statistics.

Treasury;Office for National Statistics

Question: To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the lone parent employment rate is as a percentage of the total employment rate in Wales. - Inc table and text of letter from John Pullinger of the Office for National Statistics.

Answer: Denzil Davies: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the lone parent employment rate is as a percentage of the total employment rate in Wales. [181799] Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply. Letter from John Pullinger to Mr. Denzil Davies, dated 6 July 2004: The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about lone parent employment rate. I am replying in his absence. (181799) The table below gives the latest available information. Estimates are taken from the Office for National Statistics' Labour Force Survey (LFS). As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to sampling variability. Employment of people of working age1 resident in Wales--3 months ending November 2003 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Population Number in employment 2Employment rate All persons 1,748 1,272 72.8 Lone parents 102 56 54.9 Lone parents as percentage of all 5.8 4.4 -- persons _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Covers men aged 16 to 64 and women aged 16 to 59. 2 The employment rate is the number in employment expressed as a percentage of all working age people in the relevant group.

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