§ Mr. McCartneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is his latest estimate of(a) the number of people in part-time jobs because they cannot find full-time work and (b) the number of people in temporary jobs because they cannot find permanent employment.
§ Mr. OppenheimEstimates form the spring 1994 labour force survey show that in Great Britain, 797,000 employees and self-employed people were in part-time jobs because they could not find full-time work; this was just 13 per cent. of all part-time employees and self-employed people.
In the same quarter, 587,000 employees were in temporary jobs because they could not find permanent employment; this represented 43 per cent. of all employees in temporary jobs.
§ Mr. GunnellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what proportion of women with(a) working 267W partners and (b) unemployed partners are in work; and what were the equivalent figures in 1979.
§ Mr. OppenheimEstimates from the spring 1994 labour force survey for Great Britain show that 73 per cent. of women with partners in employment, and 33 per cent. of women with ILO unemployed partners, were in employment. Equivalent figures for spring 1984, the earliest available, were 59 and 25 per cent. respectively.