Unemployment: Linlithgow and East Falkirk

(asked on 5th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate the Government has made of the number of workless households in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 23rd June 2020

Sub-regional estimates of workless households* are produced annually by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) using the Annual Population Survey (APS). The latest available statistics were published on 31 July 2019 and cover the period January to December 2018.

ONS do not publish Parliamentary constituency figures on workless households but they do produce local authority figures. Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency covers the eastern portion of the Falkirk local authority and the western portion of the West Lothian local authority area.

ONS estimate that between January to December 2018 there were approximately:

  • 8,000 (or 15.7%) workless households in Falkirk local authority; and
  • 8,000 (or 14.3%) workless households in West Lothian local authority.

These estimates are based on a sample of cases and therefore subject to sampling uncertainty.

ONS will publish updated figures for January-December 2019 on 29 July 2020 and will pre-date the COVID-19 pandemic which began in March 2020.

* A workless household is a household that contains at least one person aged 16 to 64, where no-one aged 16 or over is in employment.

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