§ Mr. Spriggsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many (a) male and (b) female employees are employed on a (i) full-time and (ii) part-time basis, in England, at the latest date for which information is available.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe latest available estimates of employees in employment in England relate to December 1980 and give 10,688,000 male and 7,721,000 female employees. Of the females 4,502,000 were in full-time employment and 3,219,000 worked part-time.
186WThe latest estimate for male part-time employment is from the June 1978 census of employment when there were 621,000 males in part-time employment out of a total of 11,281,000 male employees in employment in England.
§ Mr. Spriggsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many (a) male and (b) female workers are unemployed in each English region at the latest date for which information is available.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe following table gives the provisional numbers of males and females registered as unemployed at 9 April in the areas specified.
Male Female South-East 407,071 141,050 East Anglia 46,119 15,850 South-West 111,272 45,238 West Midlands 206,673 79,606 East Midlands 112,312 40,308 Yorkshire and Humberside 170,276 62,338 North-West 253,178 104,201 North 136,913 51,787