Homes Without Work
Monday 9th January 2012
NORTH EAST WITH 24% IS REGION WITH HIGHEST % OF
HOUSEHOLDS WITHOUT WORK IN THE UK WHERE 18.9% OF ALL HOUSEHOLDS ARE
WITHOUT WORK
It is high time that politicians at
local, national and EU level started standing up for the people who
elected them and demanded a change of approach and stopped the
public sector job cuts in the pipeline says GMB
There were 210,800 households in the North
East that had no individuals aged 16 and over in employment out of
a total number of household of 879,300. That is 24% of all
households that include at least one person aged 16 to 64 of
working age in the North East. This is the highest percentage for
any region in the UK. The percentages for other regions are: Wales
22.5%, Northern Ireland 22.4%, North West 21.0%, Scotland 20.9%,
West Midlands 20.7%, Yorkshire and The Humber 20.2%, London 18.9%,
East Midlands 17.7%, South West 16.6%, East 15.7%, and South East
14.5%. The figures for all 12 regions in the UK are set out in the
table below.
For the UK as a whole there were 3.9 million
households that had no individuals aged 16 and over in employment
out of a total number of household of 20.5 million. That is 18.9%
of all households that include at least one person aged 16 to 64 of
working age in the UK.
These figures come from a new analysis by GMB
of the Annual Population Survey data on households by combined
economic activity status January-December 2010 from the Office of
National Statistics (ONS) published just before Christmas 2011.
Sources and definitions are set out in notes to editors
below.
Liverpool has the highest % of households with
people of working age without work in the UK. There were 51,000
households in Liverpool that had no individuals aged 16 and over in
employment out of a total number of household of 159,700. That is
31.9% of all households that include at least one person aged 16 to
64 of working age in Liverpool.
After Liverpool the next highest percentages
for households without work in the UK were: Nottingham-31.5%,
Glasgow City-30.8%, Middlesbrough-30.7%, Knowsley-30.2%, Merthyr
Tydfil-29.9%,Neath Port Talbot-29.7%, Westminster-28.8%, Blaenau
Gwent-28.8%, Hartlepool-28.7%, Wolverhampton-28.1%, Newham-27.8%,
Redcar and Cleveland-27.7%, Sandwell-27.6%, North Ayrshire-27.6%,
Manchester-26.9%, Kingston upon Hull, City of-26.8%, East
Ayrshire-26.8%, Birmingham-26.7%, Isle of Wight-26.6%,
Swansea-26.6%,and Sunderland-26.0%.The figures for these top 22
areas in the UK are set out in notes to editors below.
Aberdeenshire has the lowest percentage of
households in the UK without work at 9.2%. The figures for all
203 areas in the UK are set out in a pdf at the foot of this
release on the GMB website http://www.gmb.org.uk/ . Also set out
as pdfs there are the 11 regional press releases on this
issue.
TABLE Households with persons of
working age without work as % of all households
| |
|
All
households
|
Households without
work
|
| |
|
|
number
|
% of all households
|
| |
United Kingdom
|
20,497,800
|
3,881,900
|
18.9
|
| |
Great Britain
|
19,919,400
|
3,752,400
|
18.8
|
| |
England
|
17,113,800
|
3,149,800
|
18.4
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
North East
|
879,300
|
210,800
|
24.0
|
|
2
|
Wales
|
977,400
|
220,300
|
22.5
|
|
3
|
Northern Ireland
|
578,400
|
129,600
|
22.4
|
|
4
|
North West
|
2,302,600
|
482,800
|
21.0
|
|
5
|
Scotland
|
1,828,100
|
382,300
|
20.9
|
|
6
|
West Midlands
|
1,754,200
|
363,700
|
20.7
|
|
7
|
Yorkshire and The Humber
|
1,761,300
|
356,200
|
20.2
|
|
8
|
London
|
2,697,000
|
510,100
|
18.9
|
|
9
|
East Midlands
|
1,456,900
|
258,100
|
17.7
|
|
10
|
South West
|
1,664,500
|
277,000
|
16.6
|
|
11
|
East
|
1,867,300
|
294,000
|
15.7
|
|
12
|
South East
|
2,730,700
|
397,100
|
14.5
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Paul Kenny, GMB General Secretary said,
“The Tory Party famously claimed that ‘If it’s not
hurting then it’s not working’. It is high time that the
Tories learned that if someone does not have work it hurts. It
hurts the person, it hurts their families, it hurts their
communities and it hurts our economy.
The areas with the highest levels of
households without work are those areas which were first devastated
by the recessions in the 1980s and 1990s. They never properly
recovered. They have now been hit again by the double whammy of the
bankers’ recession and by Chancellor Osborne stalling the recovery
leading to the region being mired in a new recession.
I doubt if the electorate had any
notion that a change of government would lead to a loss of 376,000
jobs across the UK in the public sector in the short time since the
general election.
It is high time that politicians at
local, national and EU level started standing up for the people who
elected them and demanded a change of approach. There is a massive
shortage of jobs as these figures show. A first step is to stop the
public sector job cuts in the pipeline. Policies that increase
employment are the only sure fire route to recovery. The sooner we
start on a new course the better.”
Ends
Contact: GMB Press Office:
Steve Pryle on 07921 289880 or Rose Conroy on 07974 251823.
Full table of
figures
Related release for the East
of England
Related release for the East
Midlands
Related release for
London
Related release for the North
East
Related Release for the North
West
Related release for
Scotland
Related Release for the South
East
Related release for the South
West
Related release for
Wales
Related release for the West
Midlands
Related release for Yorkshire
and the Humber
Notes to Editors:
1
Sources: Annual Population Survey - households by combined
economic activity status January-December 2010. ONS Crown Copyright
Reserved. Source: Nomis
2 Definitions
a) Households without
work are those households that include at least one person aged 16
to 64 and have no individuals aged 16 and over that are in
employment.
b) A household is
defined as a single person or a group of people living at the same
address who have the address as their only or main residence and
either share one main meal a day or share living accommodation (or
both).
c) Reasons for not
having work include unemployed, retired, sick or disabled, looking
after family, student or other inactive. Other inactive includes
waiting for the outcome of a job application, believe there are no
jobs available, do not need a job or not started looking for a
job.
3 Top 22 areas in UK for % of households
with people of working age without work.
| |
|
All
households
|
Households without work
|
| |
|
|
Number
|
%
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
rank
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Liverpool
|
159,700
|
51,000
|
31.9
|
|
2
|
Nottingham
|
104,200
|
32,800
|
31.5
|
|
3
|
Glasgow City
|
232,600
|
71,500
|
30.8
|
|
4
|
Middlesbrough
|
47,200
|
14,500
|
30.7
|
|
5
|
Knowsley
|
47,800
|
14,400
|
30.2
|
|
6
|
Merthyr Tydfil
|
19,300
|
5,800
|
29.9
|
|
7
|
Neath Port Talbot
|
46,400
|
13,800
|
29.7
|
|
8
|
Westminster
|
104,300
|
30,000
|
28.8
|
|
9
|
Blaenau Gwent
|
23,100
|
6,700
|
28.8
|
|
10
|
Hartlepool
|
30,800
|
8,800
|
28.7
|
|
11
|
Wolverhampton
|
72,900
|
20,500
|
28.1
|
|
12
|
Newham
|
77,200
|
21,500
|
27.8
|
|
13
|
Redcar and Cleveland
|
45,300
|
12,600
|
27.7
|
|
14
|
Sandwell
|
91,800
|
25,300
|
27.6
|
|
15
|
North Ayrshire
|
46,100
|
12,700
|
27.6
|
|
16
|
Manchester
|
176,100
|
47,300
|
26.9
|
|
17
|
Kingston upon Hull, City of
|
94,100
|
25,300
|
26.8
|
|
18
|
East Ayrshire
|
41,200
|
11,100
|
26.8
|
|
19
|
Birmingham
|
334,600
|
89,400
|
26.7
|
|
20
|
Isle of Wight
|
42,900
|
11,400
|
26.6
|
|
21
|
Swansea
|
75,700
|
20,100
|
26.6
|
|
22
|
Sunderland
|
91,200
|
23,700
|
26.0
|