HC Deb 01 March 1989 vol 148 cc198-9W
Mr. Straw

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the total number of officials engaged upon information publicity and press work in his Department; at what grades; and at what estimated cost, for the years 1979, 1983, 1986 and 1989.

Mr. Kenneth Baker

[holding answer 16 February 1989]: Information in the precise form requested is not available. The total number of officials engaged in information, publicity and press work on the dates shown below was as follows:

Level (thousand) Annual/ Change (per cent.)
1975 25,305 0.1
1976 25,702 1.6
1977 25,901 0.8
1978 25,949 0.2
1979 26,021 0.3
1980 26,198 0.7
1981 26,242 0.2
1982 26,045 -0.8
1983 25,907 -0.5
1984 26,428 2.0
1985 26,639 0.8
1986 26,735 0.4
1987 27,161 1.6
Projections
1988 27,538 1.4
1989 27,690 0.6
1990 27,790 0.4
1991 27,872 0.3
1992 27,928 0.2
1993 27,959 0.1
1994 28,001 0.2
1995 28,073 0.3

Source: "Employment Gazette", May 1987 and March 1988.

Mr. Nigel Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will estimate for 1979 and the most recently available date for the number of(a) full-time and (b) part-time employees with a length of service of (i) up to six months, (ii) from six months to one year, (iii) from one year to two years and (iv) over two years, giving the figures separately for men and women.

Employees—length of time continuously employed by current employer—Great Britain, Spring 1987 estimates
thousands
Men
Length of employment Full-time1 Part-time2 All3 Full-lime1 Part-time1 All3
Less than 6 months 857 146 1,005 512 686 1,200
6 months less than 1 year 745 103 852 487 513 1,003
1 year but less than 2 years 968 93 1,064 604 592 1,198
2 years or more 8,063 370 8,458 3,212 2,717 5,938
All employees4 10,674 714 11,399 4,822 4,515 9,356
1 basic usual hours (i.e. excluding paid and unpaid overtime and meal-breaks) of 31 hours or more per week
2 basic usual hours of 30 hours or less per week.
3 includes those employees who did not state hours worked.
4 includes those employees who did not state length of time continuously employed by current employer.

Comparable estimates are not available from the 1979 LFS.