§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what information he has on the number of(a) qualified accountants and (b) qualified engineers in Britain.
§ Mr. NichollsIt is estimated from the preliminary results of the 1989 labour force survey that in Spring 1989 there were 139,000 accountants with professional qualifications and 382,000 engineers who performed work normally requiring training of university degree standard in Great Britain, who were either in employment, or were not in employment but had been employed in these occupations in their last job, and had left that job less than three years prior to the survey.