§ Mr. RiddickTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what estimates his Department has made as372W projections of the population of working age, men and women, by standard region including Greater London, for 1979, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989.
§ Mr. LeeThe figures requested are given in the table:
to the number of employees who belong to trade unions under (a) pre-entry closed shop arrangements and (b) post-entry closed shop arrangements.
§ Mr. NichollsOn the basis of the 1984 workplace industrial relations survey, it was estimated that approximately 500,000 employees worked under pre-entry closed shop arrangements and around 3.1 million under post-entry closed shop arrangements. We expect to be able to update these estimates shortly in the light of our review of the closed shop.