§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many women were in full-time employment in the United Kingdom on 1st January in each of the past 10 years; and what proportions of female population of working ages these figures represented.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThe employment statistics do not separately distinguish full-time and part-time employment. However, the 1966 Census of Population shows that in April of that year there were about 5.5 million females of working age in full-time employment in Great Britain, representing about 36 per cent. of the total population of women in these age groups. Corresponding figures from the 1971 Census of Population are not yet available. Between June 1962 and June 1972 the total number of females in employment in Great Britain increased from 8,444,000 to 8,811,000.