Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) rate of (i) unemployment, (ii) employment, (iii) the economically active in North West Durham constituency in each year since May 1997.

The information requested for years from 2004 is published and available at: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/default.asp

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Estimates of economic activity at the constituency level are produced from the Annual Population Survey (APS), due to its larger sample size than the Labour Force Survey. The APS is only available from 2004 onwards.