§ Mr. DewarTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people in Scotland are in full-time employment; and what are the average annual figures for full-time employment in Scotland for each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. RifkindThe table gives the available information for each of the last 10 years on the number of employees in employment and the self-employed. It does not include participants on work-related Government training programmes.
Since it is not possible to obtain estimates of the number of male employees in full-time employment in Scotland for each of the 10 years, the figures for employees in employment include a small number of part-time male employees. For the years 1978, 1981 and 1984 the censuses of employment record some 0.06 million part-time employees in employment. The employee estimates may be revised when the results of the 1987 census of employment becomes available.
It is not possible to exclude those working part-time from the estimate of total self-employed in Scotland. The vast majority are likely to have been in full-time employment (in Great Britain about one sixth of the self-employed now work part time).
million Employees in employment in Scotland: males
(full-time and part-time) plus females
(full-time only)
annual averages
Self-employed in Scotland (full-time
and part-time)
June
1978 1.75 0.15 1979 1.76 0.16 1980 1.73 0.15 1981 1.65 0.15 1982 1.59 0.16 1983 1.56 0.18 1984 1.55 0.19 1985 1.54 0.20 1986 1.51 0.20 1987 1.49 0.19 19881 1.50 0.20 1 September 1988 figures: not adjusted for seasonal variation.