Unemployment: Females

(asked on 22nd February 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many unemployed women with dependent children there were in England in each of the last 6 months.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 27th February 2018

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) does not regularly publish data on unemployed women with dependent children, but in September 2017 it published the article “Families and the labour market, England: 2017” https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/familiesandthelabourmarketengland2017

This shows that there were 197,000 unemployed women with dependent children in England in April to June 2017 and that the employment rate for these women has increased by 6.3ppts since 2010.

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