Lyn Brown
PPS (Mr Phil Woolas, Minister of State), Department for Communities and Local Government
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer
(1) what percentage of single parents in (a) England, (b) London and (c) West Ham constituency who have children aged between 11 and 16 years are in employment;
(2) what the employment rates are for working mothers (a) broken down by region, including London, and (b) in West Ham constituency;
(3) how many dual-parent working families there are (a) broken down by region, including London, and (b) in West Ham constituency.
John Healey
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Questions about single parents with dependent children aged between 11 and 16 years, the employment rates of women with dependent children and the number of dual-parent families. I am replying in her absence, (122956, 122967, 122968)
Table 1, based on the Labour Force Survey (LFS), gives the number of lone parents of working age with dependent children aged between 1.1 and 15 years for the United Kingdom, England and London, who- are in employment together with the percentage who are in employment. Sixteen year olds have been excluded as not all 16 year olds are dependent on their parents so they are treated differently in the LFS. It is not possible to give comparable figures for West Ham as the LFS sample sizes are too small.
Table 2 gives the employment rates for mothers with dependent children (including lone mothers) for the regions of the United Kingdom and the parliamentary constituency of West Ham.
Table 3 gives the number of dual-parent families for the regions of the United Kingdom, and the parliamentary constituency of West Ham.
The three tables provided are for the 3 months ending December 2006 and the data are not seasonally adjusted.
Estimates are taken from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty. This is particularly true for the parliamentary constituency of West Ham.
| Table 1: Lone parents( 1) of working age( 2) in employment with dependent children aged between 11 and 15 by selected area, United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted | ||
| Three months ending December 2006 | Number (000) | Percentage( 3) |
| United Kingdom | 378 | 68.9 |
| of which: | ||
| England | 318 | 69.6 |
| London | 52 | 58.5 |
| West Ham (parliamentary constituency) | (4)— | (4)— |
| (1) Refers to people who are not married or cohabiting and have youngest dependent children, who are aged 11 to 15. (2) Includes men aged 16 to 64 and women aged 16 to 59. (3) Lone parents in employment as a percentage of all lone parents for those of working age. (4 )Samples sizes are too small to provide reliable estimates. Source: ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS) | ||
| Table 2: Employment rates( 1) for women aged 16 to 59 with dependent children( 2) by Government office region, United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted | ||
| Three months ending December 2006 | Number (000) | Percentage( 1) |
| United Kingdom | 4,725 | 67.5 |
| North East | 193 | 67.2 |
| North West | 552 | 68.1 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | 395 | 68.1 |
| East Midlands | 355 | 72.7 |
| West Midlands | 413 | 65.2 |
| Eastern | 436 | 67.7 |
| London | 534 | 55.5 |
| South East | 679 | 71.4 |
| South West | 384 | 72.3 |
| Wales | 233 | 69.7 |
| Scotland | 401 | 71.4 |
| Northern Ireland | 151 | 68.0 |
| West Ham (parliamentary constituency) | 4 | 37.7 |
| (1) Women with dependent children in employment as a percentage of all women with dependent children. (2) Defined as youngest dependent children aged 0 to 15 years and 16 to 18 years for those in full-time education. Source: ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS) | ||
| Table 3: Couples of working age( 1) in employment with dependent children( 2) by Government office region, United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted | |
| Three months ending December2006 | Number (000) |
| United Kingdom | 6,766 |
| of which: | |
| North East | 263 |
| North West | 748 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | 585 |
| East Midlands | 521 |
| West Midlands | 605 |
| Eastern | 639 |
| London | 688 |
| South East | 1,008 |
| Southwest | 564 |
| Wales | 328 |
| Scotland | 582 |
| Northern Ireland | 235 |
| West Ham (parliamentary constituency) | 7 |
| (1)Includes men aged 16-64 and women aged 16-59. (2)Youngest dependent children aged 0 to 15, or aged 16 to 18 and in full-time education. Source: ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS) | |
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