According to figures published this week, there are now eight million economically inactive people in Britain.

There is a bottom 30% of unemployed and economically inactive who are marginalised.

There were 9.29 million economically inactive people aged from 16 to 64, down 61,000 on the quarter.

There were 9.29m economically inactive people aged 16 to 64, down by 61,000 over the quarter.

In the 2001 census 19.3% of the working age population were economically inactive.

"There can be no access to state support or housing for the economically inactive," he said.

How many children under 16 lived in families with an economically inactive lone mother?

(6) There were 1.58 children under the age of 16 for each economically inactive lone mother in 1981.

We are told that the "economically inactive" is 8.2mn.

The number of people classed as economically inactive increased - up by 43,000 to 9.33m, including 2.3m looking after a family.