– Scottish Parliament written question – answered at on 6 January 2009.
Question S3W-18797
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-7367 by John Swinney on 11 December 2007, what the most recent figures are for long-term unemployment in the Lothians region, broken down by local authority (a) area and (b) ward.
The Claimant Count gives the number of people claiming unemployment related benefits and is produced by the Office for National Statistics.
(a) Table 1 shows the number of long-term unemployed people claiming unemployment related benefits in each local authority area in Lothians parliamentary region and also the long-term unemployed as a proportion of the resident working-age population and as a proportion of total unemployment in each local authority.
Long-term unemployed are defined as those claiming unemployment related benefits for over 12 months. The latest data available are for November 2008.
Table 1: Claimant Count Unemployment for Local Authorities in the Lothians Parliamentary Region, November 2008
Local Authority | Number of Long-Term Unemployed | % of Resident Working Age Population who are Long-Term Unemployed | Long-Term Unemployed as % of Total Unemployment |
East Lothian* | 35 | 0.1% | 3.4% |
Edinburgh, City of | 510 | 0.2% | 7.8% |
Midlothian* | 55 | 0.1% | 5.3% |
West Lothian | 195 | 0.2% | 6.7% |
All** | 795 | 0.2% | 6.9% |
Source: Office for National Statistics
Notes:
1. Long-term unemployed defined as those claiming for over 12 months.
2. Data on number of long-term unemployed rounded to the nearest five.
3. *Only part of the local authority located in the Lothians Parliamentary Region but the data are for the full local authority area.
4. **The figure for ALL is a total of the local authorities in the table. It does not provide an estimate for the Lothians Parliamentary Region.
(b) Data on long-term unemployment by multi-member electoral ward is not held centrally.
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