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<p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>
</p><p>Please see the letter attached from the National Statistician and Chief Executive
of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p> </p><p>I will deposit a copy of the dataset
for employment activity rates for each region of England, England, Wales, Scotland,
and Northern Ireland in the House Libraries.</p><p> </p><p>The Rt Hon. the Lord Wigley</p><p>House
of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A 0PW</p><p> </p><p>21 December 2023</p><p> </p><p>Dear
Lord Wigley,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK
Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking for the
latest employment activity rates for (1) each region of England (2) England (3) Wales,
(4) Scotland, and (5) Northern Ireland <strong>(HL1373)</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>The
Office for National Statistics (ONS) collects information on respondents’ labour market
status as part of the Labour Force Survey (LFS), which is a survey of people resident
in households in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The economic activity rate is the proportion
of the UK population aged 16-64 years who are engaged with the labour market, either
through employment or searching for work while unemployed. The employment rate is
the proportion of the UK population aged 16 to 64 years who are employed.</p><p> </p><p>The
latest LFS estimates available are for the period April to June 2023. Due to increased
uncertainty in LFS estimates from May to July 2023, the latest LFS estimates are not
being released. To give users a more considered view of the labour market, we have
applied growth rates from administrative data (HMRC PAYE RTI (Pay As You Earn Real
Time Information) for employment and Claimant Count for unemployment) to April to
June 2023 LFS data to produce adjusted employment, unemployment, and economic inactivity
estimates.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 shows estimates of economic activity and employment
rates using LFS data from March to May 1992 to April to June 2023, and experimental
adjusted estimates from May to July 2023 to August to October 2023.</p><p> </p><p>As
the data are quite extensive, a copy of Table 1 has been placed in the House of Lords
Library.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Sir Ian Diamond</p><p> </p>
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