§ Mr. FieldTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the number of people in work in(a) Birkenhead and (b) the Wirral in 1979 and at the latest date for which figures are available broken down between (i) full-time and (ii) part-time work. [79214]
§ Ms Hewitt[holding answer 29 March 1999]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.
665WLetter from Tim Holt to Mr. Frank Field, dated 30 March 1999:
As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary question on employment.Information is available for the number of Employee Jobs, derived from the Annual Employment Survey (AES) for September 1997 (latest available date) and the Census of Employment for September 1981 (the closest available date to 1979). The persons who hold these jobs may live outside the area shown.
Employee jobs 1 at September Thousand Full-time Part-time Wirral1 1981 69.0 25.0 1997 59.1 34.8 Birkenhead2 1981 32.7 11.6 1997 21.3 11.2 1 Local Authority District 2 Parliamentary Constituency